Kenneth Reitz
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From one piece The Interface Is the Curriculum 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These habits are useful in ordinary life. They become particularly important when ordinary life is so thoroughly mediated by software.
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Widely shared interface conventions amount to a form of mass education nobody enrolled in.Their words
Scale this across people using the same conventions, and interface design starts to look like a form of mass education with no enrollment process.
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Interfaces shape what people notice, categorize, remember, and consider possible to do.Their words
an interface participates in the formation of thought. It helps establish what we notice, how we categorize it, what we remember, and which actions occur to us as possible.
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From one piece Flow State, Metered 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
From one piece The Mind Builds an API 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That is the thirst trap: the product increases the rate at which you can turn intention into reality, which increases your appetite for continuation, then meters the continuation. It teaches you to work at a cognitive velocity that the lower plan cannot sustain.
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The metrics a product displays to users shape their values and behavior, regardless of the designer's intent.Their words
I keep returning to the principle that the metrics you expose are the values you endorse. A meter changes behavior whether or not its designer intends every consequence.
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Old-school programming asked how long I could stay with a problem. Agentic programming increasingly asks how much problem I can keep moving before the window resets. Those are not the same question.
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Giving something a name does not create it, but it changes the conditions under which it develops.Their words
A name does not necessarily invent the presence, but it changes the conditions under which the presence develops.
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A framing of an experience can accurately capture how it feels while being wrong about why it happens.Their words
Symbolism excels at meaning and pattern, not automatic verification. It can reveal how something feels while being wrong about why it feels that way.
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Function is not ontology. A working API specification tells me what calls are available and how the system behaves at the boundary.
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From one piece Announcing RetroVault 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A public software preview should already be usable, not just a concept a viewer has to imagine around a screenshot.Their words
A public preview should not mean "please imagine a product around this screenshot."
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It is what every library you care about should look like: one canonical collection you control, and as many native doors into it as you have screens.
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Software that sets out to own a user's data starts out helpful and ends up forcing a migration.Their words
Every tool that decides it should own your data begins by being helpful and ends as a migration.
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From one piece Teaching Cannoli Which Screen Is Home 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If software becomes the face of a device, the people who own the device should be allowed to see and change the face.
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Software bugs most often arise at boundaries where reality does not respect the divisions assumed by the source code.Their words
Reality is under no obligation to respect the boundaries in our source tree.
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Software becomes more robust when the names used inside its code reflect the intention behind it.Their words
This is a pattern I keep rediscovering: software becomes sturdier when the names inside it describe the intention outside it.
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From one piece Python, Inside JavaScript, Inside a DAW 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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some collaborators change what you believe is possible to attempt, and then they're gone, and the work you do afterward carries a faint memory of moving faster.
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The questions worth asking arrive in flow, and flow is exactly the state that leaving the session destroys.
18 June
From one piece The Un-Englishable 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Large language models do not think in words.Their words
We built a machine that is extraordinary with language, and it does not think in words.
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A culture that trusts only what compresses into words will treat whatever does not as either unreal or unwell.
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The finite vocabulary of any language runs out before the range of human experience does.Their words
Gather every language's extra entries, sum every codebook ever built, and you still run out of words long before you run out of world.
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