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Affordances determine what actions are possible. Signifiers communicate where the action should take place.
We need both.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
In knowledge work we barely recognize the difference between immersive and process time. We actually tend to overvalue immersive time (sometimes called “deep work”), because that is when it feels like we are doing our best, most important work.
But it is actually process time that offers us the most leverage. Because the small actions we take to kick off process time unlock the efforts of others on our behalf.
Mise-en-Place for Knowledge Workers: 6 Practices for Working Clean
Tiago Forte
Yes, it would be great if everyone did fully reproducible science and made all their data available and *actually responded* when you asked them questions and got a pony. But in the current, *actual* world, *most* papers are missing important details. The problem of having to scan your eyeballs past a few extra digits is a silly non-issue compared to the problem of meaningless results everywhere. So please stop spending your energy actively trying to convince people to delete one of the very few error correction methods that we *actually have* and that *actually sort of works*.
Please Show Lots of Digits
DYNOMIGHT
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