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title: "You don't like cats? You just don't know how to cook them!"
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/you-dont-like-cats
published: 2011-11-13
summary: "If a tool didn't work for you the first time, the tool may not be the problem. Maybe read the instructions after all?"
---

# You don't like cats? You just don't know how to cook them!

The line in this post's title, which Russian speakers know from ALF, the cat-eating alien of the TV series, turns out to apply in quite a few areas of life: from advanced management techniques all the way to no less advanced methods of brewing tea. With any tool, it's important to know how to use it, and not to rush to conclude that it's bad if it didn't work for you the first time.

*Maybe read the instructions after all?*