A fish rots from the head back.

Yup.

My personal counterpoint is Norman's thesis in Things That Make Us Smart.

I've long tried, and mostly failed, to consider the tradeoffs, to be ever mindful that technologies are never neutral (winners & losers), per Postman's Technopoly.

Enforcement.

Yes and: Good for the nations underwriting all that domestic competition. Playbook followed by Japan, South Korea, etc, and most recently China.

Agree with all.

> Graffiti is a population's expression of ownership of their city.

My understanding has been (some fraction of) taggers are disaffected. So I could buy that some are reasserting ownership.

Some are just dumb teenagers acting out (shitposting), like my son did.

A handful are pretty good artists. Like some of the kids in my kid's extended social group. Worthy of resources and media. eg Commissions for murals.

Rubber Ducky is a terrific name for a GPT.

Also, always reminds me of Kermit singing "...you make bath time so much fun!..."

Maybe Kermit has sung it at some point, but that's Ernie's song usually

Ha. Well spotted. I totally hallucinated that.

Maybe it was this one

https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Do_De_Rubber_Duck

DOET (neé Psychology of Everyday Things) deeply influenced me. Articulated things I had observed, experienced. Expanded my thinking.

I was using, teaching, and developing for AutoCAD at the time. Knew nothing about UI beyond my intuition. Just perplexed by how difficult it was for most to use.

Reflecting back, Norman's treatment of mental models and kinds of errors were the most impactful, evergreen design challenges I faced.

Now that you mention it...

It's odd that Microsoft hasn't aggressively pushed for "openness". That's in the usual playbook for attacking a market leader.

(And then pull up the ladder once you've become king of hill.)

Microsoft will probably never topple Google, absent anti-monopolistic enforcement. But they can certainly attack Google's profits.

Just like Computer Associates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Associates

Yes and:

The US House campaigns have steadily became more nationalized. Your proposal would reverse that.

I believe, but cannot prove, localism would lead to parliamentary style coalitions (caucus).