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what nobody tells people who are beginners

From NPR’s Ira Glass What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s [...]

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good design

Every design, no matter how small, has an impact on humanity. Good design, once all has been accounted for, is net positive.

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restlessly producing

What if I want something more than the pale facsimile of fulfillment brought on by a parade of ever-fancier toys? To spend my life restlessly producing instead of sedately consuming? -xkcd

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engineer vs. smart engineer

via xkcd

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when in doubt…

A colleague of mine recently quoted a professor he had in school: When in doubt, make it stout, out of materials you know about. Great advice for mechanical engineers. Of course, the ideal is to not be in doubt (nonlinear fea can help with that), and know about a lot of materials(check out these materials [...]

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engineering sets the pace

This is in regards to continuous deployment of software projects, but it’s enough to make you drool if you imagine being able to do this with physical products… engineering sets the pace. We get shit done, we get it done fast, it goes into production within 15 minutes of pushing it to master (feels like [...]

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beware clever designs

If you think something is clever and sophisticated, beware; it is probably self-indulgence. -Donald Norman

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what you’re reading is important

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it -Oscar Wilde

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aristotle on brainstorming

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle

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why design > marketing

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. -Leo Burnett

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