Posts by Chris
Creating a Structure to Nurture and Share Our Work
Where the moon has come out
We have walked away from the dinner table where they were all talking about all the terrible things you had to do just to survive. In the back yard, we have started a small bonfire, and begun to sing songs around it, as the crickets chirp, and the moon comes out.
Read ItA Nearly Coherent System is Completely Non-Functional
A discussion of partial systems, versus whole systems, that applies to just about anything. Has important implications for how we design things.
Read ItThoughts on Expert Systems
Thoughts on the advantages of expert systems. Optimal wetware/software interfaces, but with learning curves. Problems with learning (you become estranged from the hardness for naive users, but at the same time, you become very fast).
Read ItFelt Upper And Lower Bounds As A Way Of Setting Sliding Scale
Thoughts in a felt way to set a sliding scale, based on feel. Finding a middle ground between a pure capitalist “we each try to just get the most we possibly can” mindset, and some sort of limiting poverty viewpoint that constrains our freedom and movement.
Read ItA 5-D Paradigm for Making Websites That Matter
Don’t Be an Uninformed Website Consumer
More Prototyping and Iteration Teachings
I before here about the power of iteration and rapid prototyping (rather than just working super hard on stuff and hoping people will like it). Here are a few more references to this topic that I have found super valuable.
Read ItThe Psychology of Denial: How People Wrestle with Climate Change
I was meeting with my very clever friend Mira Michelle yesterday, and we were discussing the psychology of coming to terms with something as big and abstract as climate change. I have always been very fascinated with this. And while I don’t have a lot of time to go deep into the subject—and it may…
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