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Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft
I’m thinking about how the only way to get better at making things is to make things, and to let the thinking happen inside the work – where you can judge a thing based on how it feels – instead of outside the work.
Sari Azout • Things I'm thinking about
In every case, we prefer to zero in on the mechanics, on the means and the tools rather than on the guiding question of ends. We are almost allergic to the large first-order enquiries: what are we ultimately trying to do here? What would best serve our happiness? Why should we bother? How is this aligned with real value?
The School of Life • How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity (Work series)
Whether it’s technology (VR/social media) or creativity (AI writing), my stance is similar: the process to mastery is embodied, slow, and worth it. The tool is never the end in itself, it’s a means for your own development. If it’s not an augmenter of “leisure” (nature, friendships, art, culture, psyche), then what’s it for?
Great software products aren’t simply a collection of buttons, icons, and menus. They shape how we think and who we aspire to be.
The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.
There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight.
No one does this in a snap.
But it’s hard to ... See more
The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.
There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight.
No one does this in a snap.
But it’s hard to ... See more