Design
Considerations for building new products
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In his 2014 essay, “Rethinking Repair,” professor of information science Steven Jackson argued that contemporary thinking about technology romanticizes moments of invention over the ongoing work of maintenance, though it is equally important to the deployment of functional technology in the world
The Invisible Seafaring Industry That Keeps the Internet Afloat
How important is maintenance? Is it profitable to think of it in advance? Or does it just “feel” more “moral”?
Things that happen very seldom we all leave out of our calculations, whether they are miraculous or not.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“Bosh,” he said. “On what else is the whole world run but immediate impressions? What is more practical? My friend, the philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The ideal must be preserved through all iteration.
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
Whether there is a long-run direction in evolution, and whether that direction is to be considered progress are of course two different questions.
Herbert A. Simon • The Sciences of the Artificial
Our ability to make the most out of uncertainty is what creates the most potential value. We should be fueled not by a desire for a quick catharsis but by intrigue. Where certainty ends, progress begins. Our obsession with certainty has another side effect. It distorts our vision through a set of funhouse mirrors called unknown knowns.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What I Saw in America
If you read the book "Noise" from Kahneman et al. you will see that noise of decision (e.g. over different persons) can be reduced by skipping the weights and just adding up the scores -- Equal Weighting Model
“Your aesthetics get better as you make mistakes.”