Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
“The truth is that many of the qualities we admire in human beings can only function in opposition to some kind of disaster, pain, or difficulty; but the tendency of mechanical progress is to eliminate disaster, pain, and difficulty” —George “Fuck Technology” Orwell What’s your gut reaction?
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vaughn tan
@vt
i agree and continue to believe that discomfort and desperation can be productive (though usually only if designed mindfully) — so our inclination to always make things more comfortable, predictable, convenient is sort of stealthily self-defeating also: https://productivediscomfort.org/
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Oh dang that’s you! Cool product How did you decide what to put on the cards?
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vaughn tan
@vt
🙏🙏 🙏 the mechanism i discovered in field research (wrote about it in the book) the specific prompts and delivery format of idk was a combo of self-test/test on people i consulted for + remembering the eno/schmidt oblique strategies
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
super cool - thanks for sharing!
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