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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
E.F. Schumacher • 5 highlights
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You need to force the team to be the adjacent user by experiencing the product in the conditions and settings that the adjacent user is experiencing. This is commonly referred to as dog-fooding. This starts by making sure the team is constantly experiencing new user flows, empty states, and product states that require a certain amount of usage... See more
Bangaly Kaba • The Adjacent User Theory
From the point of view of Buddhist economics, therefore, production from local resources for local needs is the most rational way of economic life, while dependence on imports from afar and the consequent need to produce for export to unknown and distant peoples is highly uneconomic and justifiable only in exceptional cases and on a small scale.
E.F. Schumacher • Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.