people are not illiterate.
languages are poorly designed.
people are not irresponsible.
financial products are poorly designed.
people are not criminals.
society is poorly designed.
abortus is not evil.
motherhood is poorly designed.
war is not necessary.
foreign policies are poorly designed.
the more people are pressured
by a poorly designed inflexible system
the more crime there will be.
so there are no
naturally bad people aka criminals
but only poorly designed systems
which create criminals
out of naturally good people.
designers of systems
(and everything designed is a system)
should be careful
not to make good people into criminals
by making design errors.
bad person aka criminal
is a good person who does not fit
the design of a system
and the system does not want
to listen and adjust to them.
if i lived 1000 years i would:
speak 20 languages,
play 5 instruments,
master charcoal drawing,
design and build many houses,
work as a scientist for a century,
start at least 50 businesses,
write 20 books,
write 100,000 poems,
have 40 children,
compete in almost every sport…
i have reached
the ninth level of design –
the kamikaze level –
designing products
which can change the world
but do not change it
and instead change few people
who might design products
which change the world.
i can still reach
the tenth level of design,
the god level –
designing products
which change the world.
global society decided
to not plan, prevent, and build
but to manufacture crises.
it is not a magical power
we can not control
but a precise design we made.
and this is a good thing
because it means
that we can redesign everything.
when bob dylan
won the nobel prize for literature
i was skeptical about his poetry
since i never read it.
i decided to check if it is any good
and i found one of his poems online
and read it
and it was a very very very very good poem.
a really good poem.
and i thought that
it was good that he got the prize.
today i was teaching my daughter
how to design a portfolio
and i was showing her ryder ripps website
and i randomly opened his 200 obvious ideas poem
and it was as good as bob dylan’s poem.