product • law • lit | prev: @peerspace @airtime | learning to see | making & maintaining beautiful things | reading a young lady’s illustrated primer
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2014
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This is going to be my wallpaper
“...take the trouble to do all that, and you do it carefully, then it may begin to have the quality which has no name.” – at San Francisco, CA
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“...children asked if computers were alive, if they had difffrent ways of thinking from people, and what, in the age of smart machines, was special about being a person.”
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On the same theme, another joke was, “you’ve made me discover a new continent of attention I didn’t think I had within me”
We had this “iceberg theory” of attention
Someone or some environment brings your latent capacity for pure attention to life
The discovery of pure attention is very non-linear
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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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part of the simplicity & novelty of Sesame Street was in how the show retained a timeless prelapsarian innocence as the essence of its core values:
“mutual respect among children and adults, love of discovery, belief that the world can be a friendlier and happier place” – at San Francisco, CA
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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.