You cannot presume ‘this doesn’t work, therefore it will never work’. But neither can you presume ‘that other thing worked eventually, therefore this will work too’ (Also apply to ‘won’t scale, no-one wants that, looks like a toy, isn’t useful’)

One of the many things I learned from @gentry about design is the idea of *informed simplicity* pic.twitter.com/X5kXPlW0Eq

You should read The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming. But you probably don’t have time. So here is a 🧵 with a running summary as I read and take notes on the book.