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The value and risk of customizing productivity tools, and the importance of focusing on output over tooling.
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There's a critical threshold there where if you can stay in flow and change something then it becomes worth doing and that's i think a huge like a person in a workshop who might modify a tool while they're building something absolutely and you know woodworkers i'm not a woodworker but i've talked to woodworkers about they call them jigs you can
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
Josh Horowitzinkandswitch.com
Alan Kay's vision of 'malleable software,' where users learn how tools work to empower them to modify systems.
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He wrote this great essay in the 80s about this idea of what would it feel like to pop up in the hood of software and what would you see. And the reason he wanted people to do that was that he wanted people to, he says he wants people to be able to edit their tools the way they edit their documents. It's very directly this malleable software vision
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Linear’s founders want to do more than support better software creation. They want to bring back a sense of dignity to software creation, a job that today, Saarinen observes, can feel disconnected from a larger purpose. They want software engineers to feel satisfaction with and control over their work, something overreliance on project managers
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