It’s like plonking a shovel in the ground and saying this is the spot.

Metaphors for everyday actions don’t need to be about forcing the real world into the computer world. A lot of the ways of thinking feel like they are one and the same.

Another example, for me, off the top of my head: rummaging with find and grep but then scanning the output with less feels identical to hunting for red 4x1 Lego blocks or M8 nylon locking nuts.