Faster and Worse
Stephen Farrugia
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S1E31 S1E31 - Anti-Design
Design to compensate for a lack of design
S1E30 S1E30 - Belief Before Purpose
The purpose doesn't really matter Support Faster and Worse by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/faster-and-worse
S1E29 S1E29 - Tech As Anti-Design
Because the means are predetermined Referenced article: Computers and communication design: exploring the rhetoric of HCI https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/174809.174812 Support Faster and Worse by…
S1E28 S1E28 - They Are Products
AI is not a tool or a technology. It is a product.
S1E27 S1E27 - Useful is Nothing
Useful is the lowest possible bar for any product, let alone a billion dollar, all energy-consuming, one
S1E26 S1E26 - General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole
If they don't say what it's for, we can't say if it works
S1E25 S1E25 - Trajectories of Coding with AI
Things don't look good if you like making things with code
S1E24 S1E24 - Tangible & Worse
An LLM wrapped in space-grade aluminium is an amplified slop machine.
S1E23 S1E23 - Projecting Purpose
When we define our own purpose for their product
S1E22 S1E22 - The Mouse Jiggler
The unsung hero of humane design
S1E21 S1E21 - Everything Is Work Now
Tech products have a work/life balance problem
S1E20 S1E20 - Kill Magic Thinking
Bulls**t isn't created or destroyed, it just takes on different forms Support Faster and Worse by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/faster-and-worse
S1E19 S1E19 - The Swiss Army Knife Of _____
Master of none.
S1E18 S1E18 - Finding Purpose is the Fool's Errand
If they don't say what it's for, don't help them.
S1E17 S1E17 - Edge-case Marketing
Products that are marketed with purposes they can't be optimised for.
S1E16 S1E16 - Purposes not Problems
Don't ask what problems it solves, ask what purposes it satisfies
S1E15 S1E15 - Software as Material
Software is a material among infinite other materials for satisfying a purpose.
S1E14 S1E14 - Pay to Disable
Features that are more profitable as a detriment than a benefit.
S1E13 S1E13 - Do Less Products
Old hardware that can do more than new hardware designed to do less.
S1E12 S1E12 - Assumed Inconvenience
Automation assumes peripheral effort is inconvenient.
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