product • law • lit | prev: @peerspace @airtime | learning to see | making & maintaining beautiful things | reading a young lady’s illustrated primer
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“The formula for a perfume also appears in the form of a list of raw materials to be weighed out in a specific order…”
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I quite like the framing of “collaborating with the context” via gradual adjustments by creating a feedback loop
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products that possess an “aesthetic grace” reflected in the architecture of information flows that govern how they work:
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Knowledge construction isn’t a clean-cut model for a child, but is based on hunches and ad hoc experiences
These are not consistent, but a collection of strategies, contradictory algorithms, way-finding/way-making, which eventually congeal into logic
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Kay innocuously slips the term “active interface” but it becomes more interesting if you substitute it with “co-agentic interface” —
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an essential part of being happy is to remember to do things that don’t scale — and if you’re only thinking things worth doing are at scale and generalizable, you’re missing out on a type of attention that is one-of-a-kind and alive and not easily abstracted away
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“…speaking to you in a way you never knew possible, and making you conscious in a new way.”
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Adding more Product Values:
proportionality;
hospitality;
personal jurisprudence; and
friendly optimism
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What a pleasure it has been to talk shop and product stuff with @startuployalist and @DonaldRichard in the last couple of days. There's something so fun about just chatting about the craft with likeminded folks, and getting into nuance that goes into great product work (not the hot takes you find on here!). Happy to consider them both friends and talented product folks.
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Thank you, @startuployalist , a fabulous thread!
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“What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well.” --Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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So specially molded was Aristotle’s intellectual connection with ATG that there’s lore to suggest Aristotle composed a bespoke treatise for him entitled, “On Kingship,” although no longer anywhere to be found
