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🚴‍♂️💭 In the latest edition of "Why #Overthinking Ruins Everything," a #thought leader warns us about the perils of a #bicycle so complicated it makes a Rubik's Cube look like a walk in the park. Apparently, we're all just one "gravel mode" button away from losing our collective ability to pedal in a straight line. 🙄🔍
geoffreylitt.com/2025/03/03/th #Design #Complexity #Gravel #Mode #Leadership #HackerNews #ngated

www.geoffreylitt.comAvoid the nightmare bicycle

A quotation from Victor Hugo

In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
 
[En effet, s’il était donné à nos yeux de chair de voir dans la conscience d’autrui, on jugerait bien plus sûrement un homme d’après ce qu’il rêve que d’après ce qu’il pense.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 3 “Marius,” Book 5 “The Excellence of Misfortune,” ch. 5 (3.5.5) (1862) [tr. Wilbour/Fahnestock/MacAfee (1987)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/75330/

Random thought: In this digital era where many people believe they need one, two, three apps for everything, and every single company try to force you to install their crappy and privacy offending app, I find real pleasure using my #oldskool paper planner. I find the use of my planner and notebooks a very enjoyable experience, and a very productive one too.

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@oatmeal so stop the fight please.

#FOSS software is international. For anyone to use. #Linux, #KDE, #Gnome, #apache, #libreoffice, all the rest, have contributions from all parts of the world, including US, Russia, China, India and in fact most countries out there. It provides #technology and #freedom for anyone who wants it. Freedom of #choice, freedom for #privacy, freedom of #thought, #free of cost. And so it should be.