Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
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Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Bret Victor: email (9/3/04)Interface matters to me more than anything else, and it always has. I just never realized that. I've spent a lot of time over the years desperately trying to think of a "thing" to change the world. I now know why the search was fruitless -- things don't change the world. People change the world by using things. The focus... See more
Bret Victor • Bret Victor, beast of burden
The value and risk of customizing productivity tools, and the importance of focusing on output over tooling.
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There's a critical threshold there where if you can stay in flow and change something then it becomes worth doing and that's i think a huge like a person in a workshop who might modify a tool while they're building something absolutely and you know woodworkers i'm not a woodworker but i've talked to woodworkers about they call them jigs you can
... See moreWe call it a belief system because it's more than a collection of values. It's how we see the world and what is missing.
Make stuff you use every day—it makes for a better life.
Make it better—do less if you need to.
Nothing is finished—everything can be rethought.
Think small—make one small part of the world as it should be.
Slow down—put in the time &