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