Seduced by Sensemaking
They say smart people join cults because their minds crave cohesion. Basically, smart people are suckers for an explanation that makes sense.
Rethinking Systems
Simple, Lovable, Complete
What would a “simple, lovable, complete” report look like?
administrative debt
In software engineering, technical debt is when you work quickly and take shortcuts in coding that prioritize completing the work sooner over long-term stability and consistency of the code. Essentially, you borrow time and resources from the future (to fix problems arising from these shortcuts) in order to have a
Take Emotion Seriously
When designing anything, even–especially–systems that feel like they are dry and neutral, we need to take emotion seriously. What does that look like?
a data system is a hypothesis about the world
A file system is an expression of how you see the world.
Which things are like other things? Which things are different? Which categories are important? Which are unimportant?
Organizations have trouble creating a file system that works for everyone, because everyone sees the world differently.
And because they think
When was the last time you explained something to someone?
When was the last time you explained something to someone?
Did you do so willingly? With the excitement of mutual discovery?
Did you do so grudgingly, perhaps because they’d never understand anyway?
Or maybe because you couldn’t believe they hadn’t just googled it?
(Remember that website, Let
Who invented habit tracking?
An informal continuation of Remember when habits were bad?
I’m still surprised that I can’t find much on google regarding how habit tracking was invented. It seems like the kind of thing someone would pitch a deep dive into, especially given how easy it is to find articles