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This is actually a FANTASTIC description of a VERY natural human behavior – "fiddle with it and see what happens". Programmers do this. Musicians do this. All of our tools should be optimized to allow us to do this better, because it's the most natural way to make sense of things https://t.co/046fNtbxhl
the musician version is "mess your fingers around weirdly and listen to see what happens" and "google the chords / tabs" same for people learning to cook. trial and error -> weird/strange things happen -> find out what other people have figured out about this https://t.co/nNrXYL3uzx
my perspective on this is very much informed by @worrydream's riffs on "seeing spaces" and "learnable programming" https://t.co/AoL1XMJNca
Learnable programming (it's interesting even if you're not a programmer – I'm not. It's really about communicating in a way that people can understand) https://t.co/Iw2GaWZ9Lh https://t.co/WrmZK4WoAI
Seeing Spaces https://t.co/N8pUrVVEVA https://t.co/JqWKnNhtwN
I think the interesting thing about all of this, without getting into the nitty gritty details, is just to think about the context in which things are happening. I feel like this is related to Tellman's point: a model is a reflection of its environment https://t.co/AzOZhwCVG0
like, OP may have meant it as a joke, but I actually find it deeply sad that people beat themselves up for being "bad" with filenames and so on. It's not your fault!! It's the tool that is trash!! The tool should fit the user https://t.co/TnAeUyOeUV
the tool should fit the user https://t.co/PfgUVOGVwK
a big part of why I find all of this so compelling is that ordinary people, by no real fault of their own, are so quick to give up & BLAME THEMSELVES when they feel like something is not working because of the ways our systems are designed ALL of them https://t.co/0eUww2kuqY
"We are an antihuman society. Our society is alienating, technical, cold, mystifying. Our fundamental human desire is to be close to others, and our society does not allow for that." - anthropologist Sharon Abramowitz, Peace Corps volunteer during Ivory Coast 2002 civil war
when a child cannot pay attention in a classroom we blame the child FUCK THE CLASSROOM (... oh dear) https://t.co/rEPTfP9VmX
Fiddle with it https://t.co/Nz6nK6o1fs
When Steve said “great user interface” IMO this is what he was talking about https://t.co/HgS8u2dX2L
fiddle with it https://t.co/T2vINJSPSl
this is a great question and, IMO, there's a great answer when you make something, the cleverness is no longer inside your head – it's now outside of you. you can walk around it, grasp it, fiddle with it, mess with it tinkering allows you to "be" more clever than you "are" https://t.co/Vj8KqJNxbe
fiddle with it https://t.co/Y2Gqssl7sG
Non-musicians and non-pianists: did you know that you can have a lot of fun noodling around on the black keys? It’s the pentatonic scale! I was like in my mid-20s when I learned this, and I don’t know why nobody showed me this https://t.co/S0kz1ne5Th
