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I have a hunch design as a profession would go a lot farther if more designers embraced ambiguous constraints.

— Raphael Arar (@rarar) February 16, 2021

I saw this tweet yesterday and it has been in my head ever since.

This is a major problem I see in both new and mid-level designers. In new designers, I understand how ambiguous constraints and ambiguous goals could be problematic for them as they don’t have the experience to break a problem down or, more difficult, begin to see what the real problem is.

15-Minute City Could Be Coming to an Urban Area Near You - Bloomberg

I have been using a Monoprice MPSelect Mini for four years as my main 3D printer. It is a great printer but has a very small print bed. One of the things I’d like to do is print larger objects to mix fashion design and interaction design, so, I’d like a 1m cube printer. However, those don’t exist and I knew I’d have to build it myself. Having no experience with “building” 3d printers, I decided to follow an online tutorial and create one from scratch.

@mtamaryland I’m running the half-marathon this year and taking the metro. Please don’t let what happened last time to me happen again. https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1025-running-festival-20191024-hkcsfonxrvd3vibjhufprnjcxe-story.html

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This is a second example of **markdown**. This is another paragraph.

Or is this the new paragraph? Is it?

@jensimmons I think there are “packets” that transport the hypertext? 🤷

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This is a great thread for a number of reasons: 1) People are mostly polite, 2) I learned a new way to look at homeownership, and 3) While most are informed, I was surprised/not of the number of people who have no idea how mortgages/taxes/insurance actually work. https://twitter.com/Econ_Marshall/status/1445052910442713088

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RT @TerribleMaps: Average jeans colour per US state https://t.co/FW7EzbH5Lr

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AND they’re from the Maryland Medical Examiner’s office in Baltimore!!! https://twitter.com/atlasobscura/status/1445140421466902529

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RT @nwilliams030: Perhaps if we are willing to take the time to mend our clothes, we will develop the discipline and patience we need to me…

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