#18
01/13/2026
#18
Bold claims, blanket statements, and sweeping generalizations.
Much of the tension in product development and interface design comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and the possible. Figuring out which things go in which bucket is critical to fully understanding how to make something useful.
- Jason Fried, The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible
Before cars, how did man express the sentiment of needing to recklessly drive a car through a weather event?
- Aesop Rock, Unbelievable Shenanigans
Really though, how?
The Trumpist movement has generated a lunatic array of semiautonomous online subcultures that are largely indifferent to strategic considerations and immune from political consequences while still exercising influence over actors whose decisions are not so immune.
- Matthew Walther, The Strange Death of Make America Great Again
His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it.
- William Gibson, Neuromancer
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