halalmoney on Nostr: *the task of making something good — of arriving at a solution that is obvious — ...
*the task of making something good — of arriving at a solution that is obvious — is often met with a kind of ambivalence, like “Nice work…I guess? Seems obvious tbh.”
That’s the work of design: to make something so good, it’s obvious. But there’s often little acclaim for the obvious because, well, it’s so obvious (in hindsight).*
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/make-it-work-make-it-good/Published at
2026-08-25 13:48:34 UTCEvent JSON
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