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After all, talking-up complexity is the trick technocrats have been pulling for 3 decades, with the sole purpose of lowering expectations.
“If you’re not former military, join the Marine Corps.”
― Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business
― Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business
“The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.”
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“Capitalist realism can only be threatened if it is shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable; if, that is to say, capitalism’s ostensible ‘realism’ turns out to be nothing of the sort. Needless”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly, letting go and dancing with the system.”
― Thinking in Systems
― Thinking in Systems
“Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.”
― Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
― Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
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