Design
Considerations for building new products
Design
It always takes a considerable time to see the simple and central fact about anything.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation…
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.
(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
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
Josh Dzieza • 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”?
Microsoft says meeting time has TRIPLED since 2020: typical workers are spending 57% of their time communicating [meetings, calls] with others: 'Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things.’ https://t.co/aueW97bOrg
is this desirable? What caused the increase? How can we reduce it (assuming undesirable)?
“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]
For there is a real connection between such catastrophes and a certain frame of mind which refuses to expect them.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
the main principle of art, the principle which is in most danger of being forgotten in our time. I mean the fact that art consists of limitation; the fact that art is limitation. Art does not consist in expanding things. Art consists of cutting things down,