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Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
She may agree with the poet Mary Oliver that “creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration. . . . It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching,” or with Gertrude Stein, who warned, “It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
Julie Phillips • The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
In other words, the hard part isn’t writing, or coding, or speaking.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.
Vita Benes
This goal will be achieved if everyday practices, "ways of operating" or doing things, no longer appear as merely the obscure background of social activities, and if a body of theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives, by penetrating this obsurdity, make it possible to articulate them. --- Michel de Certeau, the Practice of
... See moreThere are four factors that contribute to a sense of community: membership, influence, integration/fulfillment of needs, and shared emotional connection.
David Spinks • The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage
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
Don Norman • Living with Complexity (MIT Press)
Choosing to adopt minimalistic design does not necessarily mean deep understanding of the system. But some stellar understanding of the universe of systems thinking is often times minimal to demonstrate the core nodes