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It started as a kind of meditation, a scratching of a persistent itch, but soon developed a dramatic narrative arc with one single thread coursing through it: perfectionism is the defining psychology of an economic system that’s hellbent on overshooting human thresholds.
The Perfection Trap
Thomas Curran
Discoverability results from appropriate application of five fundamental psychological concepts covered in the next few chapters: affordances, signifiers, constraints, mappings, and feedback. But there is a sixth principle, perhaps most important of all: the conceptual model of the system.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Managing people is hard; much harder than programming. Computers just do what you tell them, whether that’s right or wrong (usually wrong). Anyone can get good at programming, if they’re willing to put in enough time and effort. I’m not sure anyone can get good at managing, and most don’t. Most managers are *terrible*.
A Career Ending Mistake
John Arundel
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