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An airbase seems more like the tip of Achilles' spear.

America's true Achilles heel, history tells us, is very tall commercial office buildings.

What you're described is 'the jagged frontier,' a term coined by Mollick in 2023 (along with fellow authors Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Katherine Kellogg, Saran Rajendran, Thierry Laurent, Edouard Cudre-Mauroux, François Candelon, and Karim R. Lakhani).

If you'd read his rhetoric earlier you would have encountered the concept years ago and perhaps it would have raised his estimation in your eyes.

It's like herding cats to try to get consistent interfaces in software, in part because lots of people want to change the world with something new, and in part because UI is often an untested afterthought for people doing the 'real' work of launching features. For many devs, the downstream effects of actual UX design are an unknown unknown.

User activity heatmaps over the last five years increasingly show that users often tap on things they want regardless of whether that word/graphic/icon has any outward indication of being interactive.

Of course the hottest of hotspots are always the high-contrast button-looking things, but I can understand the trend towards card-ifying or completely unwrapping touch targets given that users stab more freely than they used to.

In Gemini, which is quite good at image generation, it gets locked into a path so rigidly that you need to start a new chat to get much variation in style; about half the time when using a previous image (in the same chat) as input it just reproduces it exactly.

"All people agree on this rule. A single man with high wealth must find a wife." -- Jane Austbot

Please let a visitor explore (a) what it does, (b) what it actually looks like, before asking them to register. You need to show value before asking for user information even when what you're offering is free.

A 30-second demo video on the landing page would be absolutely fine, or half a dozen large screenshots showing the features.

This is attributable to survivorship bias and the democratisation of information. We aren't exposed to the 99% worst books, plays, pamphlets, and sermons of the 17th century, but we experience the dull ramblings of our fellow 21st-century citizens daily and through many delivery channels.

There's a place for spinners, but I agree in the sense that the average user shouldn't be waiting for a spinner in an average session. A green path should be a good experience.

An edge-case user should expect it for expected waits of up to 10 seconds (progress bars for 10sec+ expected waits), because their edge case shouldn't inflict preloading on average users. But ghost loading will make it less annoying in any event, and there should be reasonable timeout error handling.

I don't believe that "6 hours a day" is an answer any historian would give when asked how much workers in any period in history worked.

There have been indications that there were approximately 150 days per year which were most active for medieval farmers, but if I had a time machine I wouldn't stay there very long if my desire was to experience good working conditions.

New commercial seating design: Oops, All Pinch Points!

Neither cursing nor thanking LLMs is useful. Relating in emotive syntax puts you in the wrong headspace to get the most out of the chat.

We anthropomorphise things very easily -- dogs, toys, cars -- because we're wired as social beings to have theory of mind. It's no surprise that AI chat, which mimics us, is popular.

They're very strongly against the Iran War right now.

AI = Actually Indenturedservantsfromthirdworldcountries