Divest in Interfaces
I recently read a blog post by someone whose opinion I generally value. It's ironic then, that my first official blog post is a rebuttal of theirs . The niche advice I've heard in the past is "Anything between you and the ground is worth investing in". This applies to shoes, office chairs, a mattress and pillow, even tires for your car. The idea is that this will improve your quality of life, since gravity impacts us constantly. In Luke's blog, he takes it a step further. Don't just invest in gravity abatement, invest in interfaces. His final argument is this: we spend large portions of our lives interacting with interfaces. Some of the easiest, most cost-effective quality-of-life wins might come from just reflecting on the interfaces you are currently using heavily, and asking if they can be improved. Here, I offer an alternative mode of thinking. I propose the idea of divesting in interfaces. I posit that interfaces, if invested in, lead to fragility. Ever s...