Excellent answer, really loves how humble Ron Jeffries writings usually are. I like how he doesn't prescribe what to do, but instead describes what happens to him when he does something he shouldn't (or doesn't do something he should). He's definitely human and slips like us all.

Looks like a nice reference of knots for most occasions.

To me that sounds an awful like the "lazy consensus" often applied in communities. Still this is indeed a good approach.