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Mock me all you want. The idiot driver who swerves all over the road and almost kills your family is struggling through multiple clicks to get their phone to act like a phone. It should act like a phone by default. I've already explained, multiple menus are fine to get to the extraneous features; but people don't work on spreadsheets while they're driving, they place phone calls.
If you didn't have to read a manual 10 years ago to place a phone call, but now you do, that's where the failure is. It's designed so bad that you can't figure it out.
I'll repeat myself, because this is important: anyone who tells you that newer technology is harder to figure out has designed a shitty interface.
And, yes, the device I'm talking about is a PHONE. If a service goes down on one of my servers, I receive an email on a small, cheap, and reliable alphanumeric pager. But, if a human being needs to speak with me, they call my PHONE.
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There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track.
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