In-Spire
Random stuff I come across
In-Spire
Great article translating Maslows hierarchy of needs to design. 1) Functionality - does it work 2) Reliability: does it work consistently? 3) Usability: Is it easy to use? 4) Proficiency: is it empowering to use? 5) Creativity: aesthetic, creative flourishes, innovation(!)
Let us blaze new trails. Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art and good writing can be good selling.
Dont aim for better ways to get through a task. Instead look for projects you never wanna stop doing. Surrender to your nature.
"Surrender to your nature”
But look beneath the technique and what did you find? A sameness, a mental weariness, a mediocrity of ideas. But they could defend every ad on the basis that it obeyed the rules of advertising. It was like worshiping a ritual instead of the God.
Like worshipping a ritual instead of the god.
23. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
parade.com
i.e. not cognitive dissonance
On writing
A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on w... See more
SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
This is interesting. There are good and bad people in any discipline. It’s more important to be good in a discipline rather than the discipline itself.
What people need most is confidence, not advice
(reminds me ot Tyler Cowen’s high value of raising people’s aspirations)