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Users don’t hate change. They hate you. – Christina Wodtke

medium.com/@cwodtke/users-dont-hate-change-they-hate-you-461772fbcac7
Users don't hate change. Users hate change that doesn't make their life better, but makes them have to relearn everything they knew. In fact, users don't like change that might improve their lives if they don't perceive the value of that change.

It Is Expensive to Be Poor - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/it-is-expensive-to-be-poor/282979/
Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on.

Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right - Bloomberg

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-10/trump-s-data-team-saw-a-different-america-and-they-were-right
The president-elect’s analysts picked up disturbances others weren’t seeing—the beginning of the storm that would deliver Trump to the White House.

Intellectual Proletarians

theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-intellectual-proletarians
“though the intellectuals are really proletarians, they are so steeped in middle-class traditions and conventions, so tied and gagged by them, that they dare not move a step.”

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to
Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend. “ “Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI...

The best UI typeface goes unnoticed

thomasbyttebier.be/blog/the-best-ui-typeface-goes-unnoticed
Thomas Byttebier is a freelance web designer creating minimalist and easy to use websites and user interfaces. Thomas lives and works in Gent, Belgium.

Please Don’t Learn to Code

blog.codinghorror.com/please-dont-learn-to-code/
Software developers tend to be software addicts who think their job is to write code. But it's not. Their job is to solve problems. Don't celebrate the creation of code, celebrate the creation of solutions.