"As we don’t have the time to think anymore, we masquerade our lack of ideas with behavioral tricks."
A Society That Lost Focus
Watching a webinar/interview with Don Norman, who is still incredibly smart, thoughtful, and well-spoken at 88.
There is a big difference between what's needed to do things and what's needed to understand the underlying principles.
He went back and forth between academia and industry. That was powerful because the two inform each other.
We don't teach people broad-enough understanding
Want to learn about people? Don't ask psychologists, sociologists, or anthropologists. Talk to a novelist.
He's against STEM education, because where are the people? How can we design things without understanding people?
(All paraphrased...)
"One of my life principles is to always be learning"
"I've changed...my beliefs, which is harder and takes more time...but I've changed a lot"
"The more I learned about the history of the world, the more I realized how much of it is artificial and can be changed"
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Remember when we weren't allowed to use Wikipedia as a source because it wasn't a peer-reviewed academic journal? And now academic journals are poisoned by AI and Wikipedia is a reliable source because it is relentlessly reviewed by a surprisingly small number of unlikely volunteers.
Why did @astro release all this cool stuff while I am on family spring break trip
I can't remember two Americans on the podium of a major European stage race. (Maybe during the drug-drenched years erased from memory.) They both rode a fantastic race in wet, cold conditions.
