in search of good design

Going back to Thich Nhat Hanh, I believe that writing is part of every design. If you can clearly define what you’re making and articulate its value, the steps to bring it out into the world will go much faster. It’s easy to put pixels together when you’ve already made decisions. And since we work across systems and borders, there’s no better way... See more

One failure mode of this process is if you Ankify*

* I.e., enter into Anki. Also useful are forms such as Ankification etc .

misleading work. Many papers contain wrong or misleading statements, and if you commit such items to memory, you're actively making yourself stupider.

Design as orchestration