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It’s an uncomfortable emotion. You don’t have wonder. Wonder has you.

- Lorraine Daston, science historian

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transparency of intent should be as inherent in the words we use as in the interfaces we design

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The user made perfect sense in the context in which it was originally defined: Human-Computer Interaction. UCD emphasized the practical and experiential aspects of the person at the keyboard, as opposed to the complex code and engineering behind it. But we are no longer just using computers. We are using computers to use the world. The obscured and complex code and engineering now engages with people, resources, civics, communities and ecosystems. Should designers continue to privilege users above all others in the system? What would it mean to design for participants instead?

— Kevin Slavin, → Journal of Design and Science

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Convenience, makes things easy, but without regard to whether easiness is truly what’s most valuable in any given context. [...] But sender and recipient both know that it’s a poor substitute for purchasing a card in a shop, writing on it by hand, and then walking to a postbox to post it, because contrary to the cliché, it isn’t really the thought that counts, but the effort – which is to say, the inconvenience.

— Oliver Burkeman

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By reducing problems to the most immediate causes, we might be causing more severe problems somewhere else in the system.

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Endless change is a kind of consistency.

- Joshua Rothman

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You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird.

— Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman?

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I have a specific definition of alive, which is I want to feel like I am being changed.

Jenny Odell

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work life balance is about putting a bit of my work ethic into life and some of my life philosophies into work

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I've been rich. It's easier than being broke, harder than “doing just fine.”

Poker Face S01E01

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All I want to do is play. And what I discovered is that to the extent that you put your whole self into almost any task — even if it’s washing the dishes — it stops being work and it starts becoming play.

Dan Gilbert

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Everyone says content is king, but the secret monarch of the content economy is form—constraints, rules, minima and maxima.

Paul Ford

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Every time I change my mind, I’m a slightly different person

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There are two kinds of curious — inquiry of self and inquiry of other — and both create marvelous things but one is better company than the other.

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The most relaxing thing about listening to the radio is knowing that it’s not learning my preferences.

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As I grow older, Google feels more and more inadequate to field the questions I have; So in a way, it feels like even though we grew up with the internet, it did not grow up with us.

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To have the choice to make a choice, is a privilege.