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"Silly as it sounds, not being able to figure this out made dad feel more distant. I had thought of us as like minds, and it made the loss easier to accept. His brain wasn’t entirely gone, I still have a partial version of it in my own head. But either this gadget did nothing intelligent at all, which couldn’t be true, or he and I thought so differently that even with unlimited tries, I couldn’t deduce how his interface was ever supposed to work. It was an upsetting thought."
Tom Francis on time, memory, PIDs and parental inventions.
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[this is good]. I think I like Bryan's write-up even more than the artefact itself. It captures some of the fascination I still have with e-paper well. It also captures the process of thinking through making in a gentle, thoughtful way I've perhaps not succeeded at recently.
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Good examples of Genchi Genbutsu here (and more on Toyota's processes)
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"Genchi Genbutsu (現地現物) means "Go and See” and it is a key principle of the Toyota Production System. It suggests that in order to truly understand a situation one needs to go to genba (現場) or, the "real place" – where work is done."
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Cor, this is great stuff from Jenny Odell: a tangly web of dropshipping, fraud, media, and "Bible universities". Great writing, and very hypertexty.