Sage advice from Henrik Karlsson:
"When you design something, a useful definition of success is... the form fits the context —as Christopher Alexander argued in 'Notes on a Synthesis of Form.' This is true of relationships, and essays, and careers: you want to find something that *fits*."
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"The useful thing about defining good design as a form-context fit is that it tells you where you will find the form. The form is in the context."
"To find a good relationship, you do not start by saying, “I want a relationship that looks like this”—that would be starting in the wrong end, by defining form. Instead you say, “I’m just going to pay attention to what happens when I hang out with various people and iterate toward something that feels alive”—you start from the context."
"The context is smarter than you. It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it."
"If you want to find a good design... what you want is some process that allows you to extract information from the context, and bake it into the form. That is what unfolding is." [...]
"The opposite of an unfolding is a vision. A vision springs, not from a careful understanding of a context, but from a fantasy: if you could just make it into *another* context your problems will go away."
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