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the more that we see actors looking to weaponize without any very good maps of how and what they are doing or what kinds of unexpected repercussions might happen, the more we can expect not simply increased risks of tension and worry, but also people screwing up, doing dumb stuff.
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The core tension of engineering is between how expensive it is to make a mistake and how quickly you can iterate. The faster you can iterate, the less planning you need to do before you iterate, and the more expensive it is, the more planning you need to do.
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When two truths conflict and both are hard to accept, people resolve the tension by discarding one of them.Their words
Reality hands us two truths at once, and when we can't stomach both, we eliminate one.
24 June
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Yelling and nagging at children produces compliance in the moment but costs tension, sulking, and guilt.Their words
Yelling and nagging may seem effective in the moment ("I'm getting them to put on their shoes!"), but the cost is tension, sulking, and guilt.
23 June
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Dreading a future experience causes much of human suffering by making that imagined suffering happen now.Their words
A large percentage of human suffering is anticipatory tension, or dreading a future experience such that you actualize its potential suffering in the now.
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14 January
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Big flat toggle buttons under satisfying tension. Clear affordances. You push them down, not in. One click catches, one doesn't. You can use them with bare hands, oven mitts, fingers coated in slippery whatever. Doesn't matter. Plenty of surface area. Outstanding design. It's all been downhill from there.
28 December 2025
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There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a mind-bending psychological thriller about a secret agency tasked with fighting dangerous "antimemes"—ideas that refuse to be remembered. Plenty of stories start with a clever high-concept premise and just let it play out. This one pushes its premise to extremes I never imagined possible, ratcheting up an astonishing amount of tension along the way.
21 September 2025
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You can shortcut like hard feelings because now you can just watch TikTok instead of actually dealing with the very difficult emotion or tension that you had with a colleague or with your partner or with your children.
18 August 2025
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And the reason this is important is what we're trying to do in a way is resolve this age-old tension between the cost and quality of customer experience where I think every great business wants to deliver an amazing experience to their customers. But unless you're like Hermes or the Four Seasons, it's too expensive to do.
6 December 2023
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Opportunity solution trees help product trios: Resolve the tension between business needs and customer needs
1 September 2023
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