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Folk interfaces are when users reappropriate existing software to solve their own problems. Rather than using applications in the ways designers and developers intended, they creatively reconfigure them to do unexpected things.

Folk Interfaces

Maggie Appleton

Digital goods call our bluff. If you read my e-book, we both win. If you share it, so do your friends. Attention is precious, and if you’re willing to trade your attention for my idea, we both thrive.

Linchpin

Seth Godin

Loss in Judo is more personal than in other sports. Defeat in a sport like tennis feels bad, but defeat in a fighting sport is crushing in ways that most people do not comprehend. My coach liked to say that “at the end of the day, Judo is a fight, and humans respond very differently to losing in a physical fight.”

An Expertise Acceleration Experiment in Judo

Cedric Chin

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