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Whether in books or Wikipedia: A lot of knowledge is presented and edited as text. There is the assumption that this text reflects something about the world (if it is true and not wrong because of deceived senses, bad research, or lying). Such text can be written by a person …

TL;DR: The comfort zone is a bullshit concept

When you search for »comfort zone« on google images you’ll get all sorts motivational graphics. There are many circle (»Veen«) diagrams showing that this »comfort zone«-circle does not intersect with some other circle with vague, but nice terms in …

You know the »list of figures« in academic works. But do you know the »list of texts«? ¹ This seems silly, since in almost any (academic) work you have a one text which tells the main content. It may be occasionally supported by images, diagrams or tables if such information …

Each day they are in my Twitter feed, on Facebook, on Hacker News: Articles, suggesting to embrace failure, to develop empathy as an UX research skill and to treat design holistically.

They seem like useful advices. They may come in the best intentions.

Just do it

But the only thing …