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Tools for thought are a beautiful idea—inventions which can “change the thought patterns of an entire civilization.” But that’s a 30 year old quote. Why are they so hard to make? @michael_nielsen and I try to answer that question and suggest paths forward: numinous.productions/ttft
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Andy Matuschak
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Modern design practice demands deep engagement with users' context: interviewing, embedding, reading, empathizing. Such a powerful discipline… yet it's hard to shake the sense that the people creating profound tools for thought are doing all those things—somehow way more deeply.
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Andy Matuschak
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In numinous.productions/ttft, @michael_nielsen and I argue that the most powerful tools for thought express deep, novel insights into the underlying subject matter. It's not enough to empathize with users—the designer must be able to produce original research in the target domain. pic.twitter.com/4UFRVsAJgu
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Andy Matuschak
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On a personal level, that idea was the emotional core of the piece for me. I've really struggled with my relationship to design. I've felt enthralled and empowered by its remarkable practices, but also instinctively uneasy that the work I most admire seems subtly "apart" from it. pic.twitter.com/z0WTjcfZpo
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Andy Matuschak
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Developing this piece with @michael_nielsen has helped me tentatively resolve that tension: it's a yes-and.
This was a huge relief! I saw that the practices were somehow limited—but they were too predictive to write off, and I couldn't see how to subsume them. pic.twitter.com/411H3Kzgzs
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Joshua Yearsley
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This is wonderful! I'm interesting in using techniques like this to help people retain information from game rulebooks. Have you released a tool somewhere that people can use to make mnemonic books?
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Andy Matuschak
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Not yet, sorry!
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Cheng Lou
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Nice article. Btw, have you ever watched Arrival?
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Andy Matuschak
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Funny enough, Story of Your Life has been a huge recurring theme in our discussions over the last few months. I didn’t expect that to have manifested in the essay! What made you ask?
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Anna Gát ⚡
@TheAnnaGat
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Guys this is GREAT! Congrats and good luck and MORE PLEASE
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