Thanks for the recommendation. I will put the book on the radar. This
work kind of reminds me about Richard Sennet and The Artisan, where his
main thesis is that thinking is doing and vice versa.
On a related note, that is why is so important for me having a live
coding environment: is thinking by doing/coding. You deploy your
thinking in an interactive space (the IDE) where ideas take shape. Live
coding is particularly alien in the coding world (where most people
fight with files), but hopefully, after 40 years, is coming again.
Two readings about the importance of intertwining action, thinking and
coding and environments to support such entanglement:
* Developer Efficiency: The importance of immediacy and concreteness
in programming tools
https://robert.kra.hn/posts/2019-06-20_developer_efficiency.html
* Software Reflections: Swimming with the Fish:
http://simberon.blogspot.com/2013/01/swimming-with-fish.html
Cheers,
Offray
On 21/06/19 8:06 a. m., Edward K. Ream wrote:
> Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought
> By Barbara Tversky, Basic Books, 2019
>
> I'm telling everyone I know about this book. I highly recommend it.
>
> The author is a research scientist. The book is anything but dry. It
> might change your life.
>
> *Quotes*
>
> A creature didn't think in order to move; it just moved, and by moving
> it discovered the world and then formed the contents of its
> thoughts—Larissa MacFarquhar.
>
> Art proves that life is not enough—Paraphrasing Fernando Pessoa.
>
> This book means to show how we think about space and how we use space
> to think...The premise is audacious: spacial thinking, rooted in
> perception of space and action in it, is the foundation of all
> thought. The foundation, not the entire edifice.
>
> *Laws of cognition*
>
> These are solidly grounded in research. Understand them, or suffer.
>
> First Law of Cognition: There are no benefits without costs.
>
> The root of all cognitive biases. We evolved to solve problems
> quickly, but not necessarily accurately.
>
> Sixth Law of Cognition: Spatial thinking is the foundation of abstract
> thought.
>
> Oh, how I wish I had understood this in school...
>
> *Implications for Leo*
>
> Creativity does not mean daydreaming! For me, it means finding juicy
> problems to solve.
>
> Tversky discusses/empathetic design:/
>
> "[Designers] study a community of users intensively to see what people
> actually do and what kind of new product or service might improve
> their lives...We compared two strategies, mind wandering and
> empathetic, for the standard divergent thinking task, finding new uses
> for familiar objects...The hands-down winner was the empathetic
> strategy...Only the empathetic strategy approach gave a productive way
> to search for new uses."
>
> This is highly relevant to me at present.
>
> Edward
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