"2 Advanced issues found▲1 Omer Stringer and a lineage of style canoeing from Seth Godin on Vimeo."Tumblehome" is a traditional canoeing term, describing how a cedar-strip canoe will return to normal and not capsize if you lean it. Particularly for solo canoeing, it's essential. The ill-advised mass produced metal and fiberglass canoes have a lousy tumblehome."

"1Unless we define "design" as "something, that, after the fact, can be said to have worked," there's no other measure of design that Bloomberg the company is particularly good at.The fingerprint sensor, just to pick one example you highlighted, did nothing to serve the user, was a pain in the neck to use and was fairly brutal. It existed only to be sure that paying customers weren't sharing machines. The reason that Mike is a billionaire is that he built a virtuous cycle of network effect in an industry that has an unlimited amount of money to spend for a tiny head start.He masterfully crossed the chasm, aided by self-interested and profit-focused traders who insisted that corporate let them have the machine, and he added competitive insulation by buying the rights to data 15 minutes faster than anyone else could get it, PLUS, and here's the smart part, by building a completely arcane and difficult to navigate system that rewarded users who had learned it, which created a bulwark against the internet, because if it switched to a more rational or easily learned system, they'd lose their advantage.Design doesn't mean pretty. But I'm not sure design means brutalism in service of monopoly either."

" Other than the issue of production (of which I know nothing) the design isn't at all flawed. You don't have to 'land on a tooth'. All you have to do is unstick an inch or two of tape so it rises off a crevice, pull it tight and tape it back on. You might expose two gaps instead of one, but it's going to work."