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Complexity can be tamed, but it requires considerable effort to do it well. Decreasing the number of buttons and displays is not the solution. The solution is to understand the total system, to design it in a way that allows all the pieces fit nicely together, so that initial learning as well as usage are both optimal. Years ago, Larry Tesler, then... See more

As with Trump’s shock jock politics, it’s up to us not to take the bait. We do not have to publicly denounce every incendiary ad, particularly when it comes from an anonymous poster or tiny seed startup. Instead of quote-tweeting, you can mute and ignore. Often, dis- engagement is the best way to waste the master-baiters’ time and money.

All materials ultimately deteriorate and show signs of wear. It is therefore important to create designs that will look better after years of distress.

I suppose this is what I meant when I wrote what I did, sweet pea, about how it is we cannot possibly know what will manifest in our lives. We live and have experiences and leave people we love and get left by them. People we thought would be with us forever aren’t and people we didn’t know would come into our lives do. Our work here is to keep

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Do you understand his temperament as an act of denial or an act of acceptance?

What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.

I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live... See more

Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn’t get better. You get better.

Joan Rivers

Art and the artist both suffer most when the artist gets too heavy, too focused on results.