Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote a draft on the ways tech companies were shaping life in our cities with something we tend to take for granted: maps.
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The Exhaustion of Permanent Disruption
The most productive people I know have a defensive near-conservatism about their tools. They find something that works and they stick with it as long as possible. They resist updates, they use old versions, they build elaborate workarounds to preserve their existing workflows. They understand that mastery takes time - and that constantly relearning everything is incompatible with actually doing anything well. They’ve realized that in a world that demands constant adaptation, the rational move is to create islands of constancy wherever possible.
I enjoy technology and new ways to do things, but finding the “slow-to-adopt yet open to change” balance has been key to my sanity.
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Minding the gap
Design Engineers are well-positioned to step into the gap between product design and engineering and help close it from both sides.
A bit on writing & publishing
The one in which I participate in the “blogging” chain letter that has been making the rounds in the indie web community.