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The central notion of the Programmer's Stone is that there are two methods of thought, mapping and packing; that mappers make highly effective programmers, whereas packers do not; and that packers can be taught mapping and hence become effective programmers.
Carter originated the course from trying to explain the well-known phenomenon of some programmers being ten or even a hundred times as productive as others, by several measures, and the thinking patterns this would require.
After the Programmer's Stone, Carter developed the notions found in it into a personal cosmology called Reciprocality , which is considerably less tested in the real world and has been said to verge on pseudoscience.