Sushant Anandquote http://blog.sushantanand.com There is money in the banana stand Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:17:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Art is about freedom while Design is about constraints. http://blog.sushantanand.com/2010/02/art-is-about-freedom-while-design-is-about-constraints/ http://blog.sushantanand.com/2010/02/art-is-about-freedom-while-design-is-about-constraints/#comments Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:30:44 +0000 Sushant Anand http://blog.sushantanand.com/?p=191165942 http://blog.sushantanand.com/2010/02/art-is-about-freedom-while-design-is-about-constraints/feed/ 0 Kayaks vs Canoes http://blog.sushantanand.com/2010/01/kayaks-vs-canoes/ http://blog.sushantanand.com/2010/01/kayaks-vs-canoes/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:55:58 +0000 Sushant Anand http://blog.sushantanand.com/?p=191165888

In the North Pacific ocean, there were two approaches to boatbuilding. The Aleuts (and their kayak-building relatives) lived on barren, treeless islands and built their vessels by piecing together skeletal frameworks from fragments of beach-combed wood. The Tlingit (and their dugout canoe-building relatives) built their vessels by selecting entire trees out of the rainforest and removing wood until there was nothing left but a canoe.

The Aleut and the Tlingit achieved similar results — maximum boat / minimum material — by opposite means. The flood of information unleashed by the Internet has produced a similar cultural split. We used to be kayak builders, collecting all available fragments of information to assemble the framework that kept us afloat. Now, we have to learn to become dugout-canoe builders, discarding unneccessary information to reveal the shape of knowledge hidden within.

I was a hardened kayak builder, trained to collect every available stick. I resent having to learn the new skills. But those who don’t will be left paddling logs, not canoes.

GEORGE DYSON
Science Historian; Author, Darwin Among the Machines

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You can’t look at results without considering the behavior that drove the results.

- Coke’s VP of Design

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Organizations are like households — they tend to fill the attic and basement with too much stuff, and it takes discipline to remove it.

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    Vision without execution is delusion.

    Execution without vision is insanity.

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    Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.

    -Design House Stockholm

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