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The DuPont Company's Chart Room
hagley.org
It is easy to take for granted the abundance of organized information we now have access to on demand.
DuPont created this room in 1919 and didn't share details about how they used it in public until 1950.
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different
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this one helped a lot with seeing over the horizon and i saw it play out for a few companies in 2020 (when time moved very fast and very slow)
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x.comKinship is a human need. Don't think too much of it. Commune.
@john_lam @simonw Reminds me of this Joel Spolsky anecdote "the gridlines are the most important feature of Excel" that I've never forgotten https://t.co/ygM8xxm8tw https://t.co/DDnam30nEQ
hate to admit it, but this tracks. ui design starts becoming more important the moment you have a sufficiently capable data structure/model in place
users will ask for features when what they actually want is a specific view
this probably explains notion » coda
notion has very good views and is adding automations after the fact
coda has very good automations and is adding views after the fact
my hunch is most people are visual learners. they prefer to have information laid out the right way and only then can they reason about it.
automations are reasoning before seeing
this is also why cli tools, chatbots, and other text based ui paradigms are niche or quickly fall out of favor. too much reasoning without the requisite framing.
When is AI useful in the real world?
milan.cvitkovic.net
“AI is useful for a real-world task only if the cost for the AI to do the thing and for you to check its work is less than the existing solution.”
I think this is the best career advice I’ve found on the internet (yes, buried in a ’90s-looking blog)
Scott Adams’ argument: Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things. Don’t try to become the best at one specific thing.
He writes:
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