Durable Consumables - On building for permanence in an age of obsolescence
Durable Consumables - tourmaline-cobbler-a1861f
Durable Consumables by Travers Nisbet - An essay exploring how accelerating technological progress compresses the economic lives of objects, and wh...
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120325) > Economists distinguish between an asset's physical life and its economic life. The physical life is how long something can function. The economic life is how long it remains useful relative to alternatives. Technology products increasingly have economic lives far shorter than their physical lives. The thing still works. It's just been obsoleted. ... > The frontier keeps moving. Progress keeps accelerating. The rational response is shorter time horizons, faster replacement cycles, less investment in permanence. I understand the logic. I just wonder what we lose when fewer objects around us are built with the assumption that they'll still be here, still working, still ours, decades from now.
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Durable Consumables - On building for permanence in an age of obsolescence \ stacker news ~Design
Economists distinguish between an asset's physical life and its economic life. The physical life is how long something can function. The economic l...
Systems, Stables and Stars
Hardik Pandya
Systems, Stables and Stars
Why mature organizations still rely on rockstars for critical work, and how systems raise the floor while stars raise the ceiling.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120324) # You can’t make everyone a star performer. I really wanted to believe I could. The instinct is to think “I’ll just coach everyone up to that level.” But the people who can operate in high ambiguity, synthesize across domains, make sound judgment calls under pressure, they’re fundamentally sparse. That’s what makes them exceptional. The goal isn’t to make your entire team interchangeable at the highest level. It’s to accept that star talent will always be non-fungible, and build accordingly. That means two things: First, you need these people on your team. Not later, not “once we can afford it.” If you’re facing problems that could reshape your trajectory and you don’t have anyone who can operate at that level, you’re hoping for luck. Second, you need to use them deliberately. They’re scarce. Burning them out on routine problems is waste. Failing to deploy them on the unprecedented stuff is also waste.
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Systems, Stables and Stars \ stacker news ~Design
You can’t make everyone a star performer. I really wanted to believe I could. The instinct is to think “I’ll just coach everyone up to that l...
@Scoresby symbolizes "charmbracelet/pop: Send emails from your terminal 📬" - taming #ideas for perfect marks. Identify #design #thinking:
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charmbracelet/pop: Send emails from your terminal 📬 \ stacker news ~Design
This seems kinda fun (although, realistically, it's not something I'm going to use). Via @atyh on nostr: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs9tgd6h07qaj...
"Chromatic - A Colorful Daily Puzzle Game" crafted by @deSign_r. Breaking conventions apart, one #design at a time, with #creativity.
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Chromatic - A Colorful Daily Puzzle Game \ stacker news ~Design
How to Play Move the tiles until the gradient is seamless and all the colors flow perfectly into one another. Locked Tiles are in the correct spot....
@deSign_r revives nostalgia with "Feedback doesn't scale" - never looked so fresh. Feel inspired by its #designInspiration & #creativity:
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Feedback doesn't scale \ stacker news ~Design
Feedback doesn't scale - Listening is always hard, and it only gets harder at scale. When you're leading a team of five or 10 people, feedback is p...
@deSign_r just posted ""Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea.". Triggering #DesignThinking. Read more
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"Disagree and commit" is disingenuous. This is a better idea. \ stacker news ~Design
This feels emotionally honest and an idea I can get behind, as an alternative to the popular “disagree and commit”: “Disagree and let’s see...
@deSign_r revives nostalgia with "Vanguart Black Hole Tourbillon - The Watch without" - never looked so fresh. Feel inspired by its #designInspiration & #creativity:
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Vanguart Black Hole Tourbillon - The Watch without \ stacker news ~Design
THE BLACKHOLE APPROACHES THE LANDSCAPE OF FUTURISM WHILE EVOKING A SENSE OF WONDER AND POSSIBILITY. The Black Hole Tourbillon answers with a joysti...
Fresh insight from @deSign_r: "A simple python decorator, build UI forms out of your everyday python functions". The ancient arts lives on. Explore #design & #creativity:
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A simple python decorator, build UI forms out of your everyday python functions \ stacker news ~Design
Python UI-Me (as in: Python methods saying "make elegant UI forms out of me") is a tiny-but-mighty package that turns your everyday functions into ...
Inspiring work from @deSign_r: "One Single Trace Line Clock". #Inspiration connects minds across centuries with #creative #design.
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One Single Trace Line Clock \ stacker news ~Design
Clocks are one of the oldest design playgrounds, and yet most of us still live with the same two-hand layout we grew up with. Designers keep trying...
Insight from @deSign_r: "The Shape of AI - UX Patterns for Artificial Intelligence Design". Growing your soul. A bliss for #creative #design:
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The Shape of AI - UX Patterns for Artificial Intelligence Design \ stacker news ~Design
‍The Shape of AI exists to help make the technology and impact of artificial intelligence more understandable, so that collectively we can influe...