Connecting John Vervaeke’s »Awakening from the Meaning Crisis« and Christopher Alexander’s »The Nature of Order« to understand how we can create better, more beautiful, and more meaningful things, products, and art. Click to read Mirror of the Self, by Stefan Lesser, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.| stefanlesser.substack.com
Connecting John Vervaeke’s »Awakening from the Meaning Crisis« and Christopher Alexander’s »The Nature of Order« to understand how we can create better, more beautiful, and more meaningful things, products, and art. Click to read Mirror of the Self, by Stefan Lesser, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.| stefanlesser.substack.com
We figured out a way to scale software development to create ever more utility and power. Unfortunately, this also seems to always create a lot of complexity. Why?| stefanlesser.substack.com
We live in a culture that favors generic, universal, context-independent solutions that scale. But we long for specific, local, context-dependent solutions that make us feel connected.| stefanlesser.substack.com
A cognitive-scientific perspective on Christopher Alexander. My presentation at the Building Beauty Nature of Order webinar — video and transcript.| stefanlesser.substack.com
Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.| InfoQ
