what those people are is not busy but tired. Exhausted. Dead on their feet. It’s almost always people whose lamented busyness is purely self-imposed: work and obligations they’ve taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they’ve “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They’re busy because of their own ambition or drive or anxiety, because they’re addicted to busyness and dread what they might have to face in its absence.

A good cross-platform application looks at home on whatever platform it is used on. A bad cross-platform tries to look identical everywhere. For instance, if your Android app has navigation controls at the bottom of the screen, iPhone style, you’re doing it wrong.

Kun ihmisille tarjotaan taloudellista kannustinta, he kysyvät “mitä minä tästä saan”, eivätkä enää halua tehdä työtään siksi, että saavat tyydytystä työstään ja ovat ylpeitä siitä, mitä ovat saaneet aikaan.

“Taking sides” is anathema; and yet the modern professional knows never to challenge the “built-in ideology of the status quo”. A key to training professionals is what Schmidt calls “assignable curiosity”. Children are naturally curious, but along the way to becoming a professional they learn that curiosity is a series of tasks assigned by others. On entering training, students are optimistic and idealistic. On leaving, they are “pressured and troubled” because they realise that “the primary goal for many is getting compensated sufficiently for sidelining their original goals”.

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