One recent way this helped me: I think we can make inboxes (email, tasks, tabs, reading lists) less burdensome by replacing high-stakes mechanics (“close tab”) w/ low-stakes ones (“not right now”, decay). The insight comes from understanding these as queueing systems! (cont)
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In cogsci, Marr suggests 3 levels at which a system (eg vision) can be analyzed: computational (the fundamental problem being solved), algorithmic (how it’s solved, abstractly), and implementation (hardware details).
It’s an interesting taxonomy for analyzing tools for thought!
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