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- Feb 2022
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every.to every.to
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I learned from using those Macs early on that form is always malleable. This became even more apparent when the web came into the picture. Think about it: there’s no way to make a web page or a blog that is not an act of playing with its form at the same time as you're creating its content. So it just seemed natural: the world was always telling me that you worked on those two things – the container and its contents – together.
There is a generation of people who grew up at the edge of the creation of computers and the web where they were simultaneously designing both the container and its contents at the same time. People before and after this typically worked on one or the other and most often on the contents themselves without access to the containers.
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- Oct 2021
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slate.com slate.com
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But before this view calcifies into common wisdom, it’s worth examining whether it’s an accurate or useful understanding of generational change.
I love that she's explicitly highlighting this idea, particularly in 2011.
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