Design
Considerations for building new products
Design
“If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.”
Bibliography for Beginners - Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Microsoft says meeting time has TRIPLED since 2020: typical workers are spending 57% of their time communicating [meetings, calls] with others: 'Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things.’ https://t.co/aueW97bOrg
is this desirable? What caused the increase? How can we reduce it (assuming undesirable)?
We know the meaning of all the myths. We know the last secret revealed to the perfect initiate. And it is not the voice of a priest or a prophet saying ‘These things are.’ It is the voice of a dreamer and an idealist crying, ‘Why cannot these things be?’
G K. Chesterton • The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC)
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation…
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
It always takes a considerable time to see the simple and central fact about anything.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
the main principle of art, the principle which is in most danger of being forgotten in our time. I mean the fact that art consists of limitation; the fact that art is limitation. Art does not consist in expanding things. Art consists of cutting things down,
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Our ability to make the most out of uncertainty is what creates the most potential value. We should be fueled not by a desire for a quick catharsis but by intrigue. Where certainty ends, progress begins. Our obsession with certainty has another side effect. It distorts our vision through a set of funhouse mirrors called unknown knowns.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.