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Add Matuschak's "Armories for tool-maker / tool-user collaborations" to catalog #53

Closed jryans closed 2 years ago

jryans commented 3 years ago

https://www.patreon.com/posts/armories-for-52549432

"...certain kinds of progress in “tools for thought” may depend on figuring out a way for “tool-makers” to work very closely with “tool-users”—people who are in some sense devoting their lives to playing the instruments we create. This goes beyond the typical lite-ethnographic “design research” practiced by firms like IDEO: luthiers must become at least modest violinists themselves, embedded in those communities, and capable of making original (but probably limited) contributions to their problems. Likewise, the tool-users must become active participants in the design project, learning enough about how the tool is built to contribute meaningful ideas."

"The pair must proactively develop an armory of tool ideas (both embryonic and mature) to equip the tool-user’s explorations."

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jryans commented 2 years ago

I didn't realise when filing that this post is currently locked to patrons... 😅 Generally speaking, I would not add locked / paywalled content to the catalog, since that sort of defeats the point if it's not accessible to all.

In this case, I messaged the author, and they are okay with quotes being shared, and also might make the full post public next month, so I'll leave the issue here for now, and hopefully in a few weeks it will become available to all.

jryans commented 2 years ago

This post has been unlocked, so it's now accessible to all.

akkartik commented 2 years ago

I think I'll summarize this next if you haven't already started.

jryans commented 2 years ago

Sounds great, please go ahead! 😄