"skill issue" is my favourite phrase
Yetch Studio | Unique Solutions to Everyday Problems
Unique solutions to every day problems, straight from Simone Giertz's brain.
How I stopped worrying and learned to love the easy fix
On the balance between perfect solutions and pragmatic fixes in software engineering
AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye
The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.
Bridges & scruples
For your own sanity, you have to remember that not all problems can be solved. Not all problems can be solved, but all problems can be illuminated. —Ursula Franklin
The Friction I Don't Want to Lose
I love learning. And while the friction of solving new problems is increasingly traded for speed, the experience gained by overcoming that friction is as important as ever.
Issue 015, The June Edition. | Offprint
Get some accountability friends for your side projects, manage your typefaces, and listen to some non-AI generated jazz.
Repair Culture: Learning to Fix Instead of Replace – Wayfinders Now – Living small to gain abundance.
Repair culture is the growing mindset of choosing to fix what’s broken instead of immediately replacing it. It challenges a habit that has become almost automatic in modern life: when something stops working, we discard it. A new phone, a new appliance, a new chair, a new everything. Repair culture asks a quieter question: What […]
The Paradox of Perfection: When ‘Good Enough’ is Actually Better
Exploring the tension between engineering perfectionism and pragmatic delivery. Discover why striving for the perfect solution often prevents us from shipping valuable improvements and how to find the balance.
Issue Cards | Service Design Tools
Support the conversation around complex matters by breaking down the subject into physical cards.
Prompting Science Report 4: Playing Pretend: Expert Personas Don't Improve Factual Accuracy
<span> <p><span>This is the fourth in a series of short reports that help business, education, and policy leaders understand the technical details of working w
Prompting Science Report 4: Playing Pretend: Expert Personas Don't Improve Factual Accuracy
<span> <p><span>This is the fourth in a series of short reports that help business, education, and policy leaders understand the technical details of working w
The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity
A groundbreaking study revealed that the most compelling artists seek to find problems, not solve them.
toucan on Twitter / X
Related: men underrate how much cognitive labor goes into skincare and how sophisticated women are about it. Getting into skincare (identifying unwanted skin conditions and fixing them) is one of the best ways to train empirical science skills. It's a practical science.… https://t.co/CMGPnzXDeB— toucan (@distributionat) September 15, 2025
The Imperfectionist: Interest is everything
Interest is everything Each time I sit down to choose a topic for this newsletter, there’s a moment when my self-important inner judge – who loves to involve himself in such mat...
Another valuable AI tool to address the massive de-skilling event we are currently experiencing! By @lav.io
Sam Lavigne
I made a chrome extension that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly... slowllm.lav.io
One thing that Tara touches upon but that I want to spend more time on is that the master's tools that are problematic are the *epistemic* ones. Tech has unexamined epistemic assumptions inside of which there is no liberation.
Blake E. Reid
This is an essential read, and the closing on credentialing versus engagement and "centering the people for whom the stakes are highest" in particular. (H/T @peachfleurr.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com)
