Speaking of Making Distinctions

We could try to divide the world into Mechanics and Mystics. Alternatively, we could divide the world into Askers and Guessers:

This terminology comes from a brilliant web posting by Andrea Donderi that's achieved minor cult status online. We are raised, the theory runs, in one of two cultures. In Ask culture, people grow up believing they can ask for anything – a favour, a pay rise– fully realising the answer may be no. In Guess culture, by contrast, you avoid "putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes… A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won't have to make the request directly; you'll get an offer. Even then, the offer may be genuine or pro forma; it takes yet more skill and delicacy to discern whether you should accept."

As Joel pointed out, the mechanic/mystic trait is closely associated with the kinds of objects or insights that they are good at dealing with. Similarly, the author suggests the asker/guesser trait is closely associated with the culture you come from. The real question for me, though, is how do I get a prominent blogger like Tyler Cowen to talk about mechanics and mystics?