Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
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Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
A common reason we filter information and become blind to the context is that we bundle things when we think. Thinking about our career, we might think in abstractions like “a job.” But really a career is made up of a bunch of different things: a salary, an identity, relationships, status, a sense of meaning, and so on. It is often easier to find a... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
It is a feedback loop between you and the context. By gradually adjusting the thing you are designing and observing how well it fits the context, you create a feedback loop that embeds the context’s knowledge into your design . Your design ends up smarter than you.
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
If you want to find a good design—be that the design of a house or an essay, a career or a marriage—what you want is some process that allows you to extract information from the context, and bake it into the form. That is what unfolding is.
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Reality is shy—it only reveals itself to those who, like honest scientists, do not wish it to be something else.
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
The context is smarter than you . It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it.
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
—John Stuart Mill
—John Stuart Mill
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
The faster you can collide your ideas against reality, the faster you get feedback. By increasing the speed at which you can act on the context, trying new things will become cheaper for you—and so you will take more risks, and extract more information from the context. Write faster, prototype faster, ask for feedback faster. Velocity is underrated... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
By gradually adjusting the thing you are designing and observing how well it fits the context, you create a feedback loop that embeds the context’s knowledge into your design . Your design ends up smarter than you.
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
The context is smarter than you . It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it.