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Task Analysis: How to Develop an Understanding of Work (Users' Guides to Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods)

by Jack Stuster

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Napoleon: A Life

by Andrew Roberts

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Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design, Third Edition

by Mica R. Endsley

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“Research has shown that simply imagining yourself in a situation where the rules of regular life don’t apply can greatly increase your creativity.”
― Tanner Christensen, The Creativity Challenge: Design, Experiment, Test, Innovate, Build, Create, Inspire, and Unleash Your Genius

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“Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

tags: common-sense, fear, humorous-truism, self-awareness

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“Imagining what would happen if you changed one thing you do on a daily basis—and thinking about how that change would affect everything else—is a clever way to conquer seemingly impossible scenarios and consider how even the smallest thing you deal with impacts everything else you do.”
― Tanner Christensen, The Creativity Challenge: Design, Experiment, Test, Innovate, Build, Create, Inspire, and Unleash Your Genius

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“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:
Increasing efficiency
Increasing opportunity
Increasing emergence
Increasing complexity
Increasing diversity
Increasing specialization
Increasing ubiquity
Increasing freedom
Increasing mutualism
Increasing beauty
Increasing sentience
Increasing structure
Increasing evolvability”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

tags: future, technology

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