july

What’s easy to understand may not be easy to understand for others 

The more you become an expert, the more this blind spot increases, and what’s easy to you (without knowing it’s hard for others) increases

simplicity is a virtue that becomes harder and harder the more you become an expert

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

The challenge then is: how do you retain this “easy” feeling in doing the simple things, while retaining and learning more and more complex things. How do you retain the child like joy of being a beginner, the newness of things, while not losing the complex muscle memory of doing?

Yeah. I wonder myself as well.

“Instead of talking about strange things, and try and make them familiar, I’m going to try and take what we think we know and make it strange again, so we can actually think about it.”

↑ Alan Kay “channeling” one of his mentors: Jerome Bruner

more context reqd == harder to explain to outsiders

difficult to find the metaphor + low context that connects the concepts to things ppl understand