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To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is:
- Composable
- Shareable
- Degrabable
- Learnable
- Semantic
- Grammatical
- Efficiently expressive
- Suggestive
- Intentional
- Legible
I can’t quite tell whether I’m trying to force together two concepts (notation and user interface) which are fundamentally different, or whether there is something fruitful in seeing them as aspects of the same thing.
Collecting My Thoughts About Notation and User Interfaces
interconnected.org
We’ve somehow managed to create a societal scenario where the most desirable iteration of the status quo (partnered, with children) is incredibly difficult, the variations on that status quo (single, with children) are even more difficult, and the aberrations from that status quo (partnered with no children, single with no children) are “easier” in many meaningful ways, but accompanied by constant societal friction.
Your Own Harriet - By Anne Helen Petersen - Culture Study
annehelen.substack.com
The three bank runs which already happened had idiosyncratic causes, but “if accounted for accurately, the bank is insolvent” is the sort of thing which, if one stipulates to it, one would suggest might generate bank runs in the near future. And so there was a policy response, which much commentary has assumed is primarily about the banks which no longer exist, and the satisfaction of their depositors, and which is actually much more about banks in danger which might yet be saved.
Banking in Very Uncertain Times
Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
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