Being a product person
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Like the Turin shroud, the cloth bears witness and registers the happening for posterity. Once again, the image is static, but the traces left on the ‘tablecloth’ are a reminder of the unique but random social intercourse that took place as the meal advanced in time. To our minds, this more accurately captures the event than the first drawing. Acce... See more
Sarah Wigglesworth • The Disorder of the Dining Table
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Summarizing Kola 🔑’s idea from a conversation:
Our methods of critiquing software are shallow. We have reviews, reactions, tutorials, puff-pieces, and clout-chasers. It’s important to have independent, thorough, and cultural critique, and it should be distributed among those who are building the future (The Paolo Alto Review).
This isn’t about rev
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A Man Bakes Soulful Bread in a Renovated Garage | Sourdough Bread Making in Japan
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what is so interesting about baking bread?
“I’m always thinking about... It reminds me of the first person I was. Kids going crazy about beetle catching, playing in the water, etc. There's no reason for that one. They're just absorbed in it. But as we grow up, we tend to look for reasons and logic for such behaviour.
No, it's not that. [It’s] that kind of obsessed, sensory, original self. When I'm kneading dough by myself in a place like this, that's what it reminds me of.
So my mental age is getting more and more childish. I'm becoming a social misfit. I'm getting further and further away from organizational people."
Aesthetics are important in creating the appeal of products that underpins their longevity. ,25, In these instances, 'the 'product' would be a fusion of psychological and external 'realities', the user would become a protagonist and co-producer of narrative experience rather than a passive consumer of a product's meaning. The mental interface betwe... See more
Jonathan Alexander Chapman • Emotionally Durable Design: Sustaining relationships between users and domestic electronic products
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Repair and remain. Work with what you’ve got. Sit still for a moment, take stock, make some changes.
Kurt Armstrong • Repair and Remain
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Now thinking about creating a movement to promote "hobbit software". Pretty chill, keeps to itself, tends to its databases, hangs out with other hobbit software at the pub, broadly unbothered by the scheming of the wizards and the orcs, oblivious to the rise and fall of software empires around them.
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Dave Anderson • Dave Anderson (@danderson@hachyderm.io)
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