> The theme here is that the cultures that arise around products, methods, and inventions often grow to exclude discussion of their fatal flaws, and instead fin

> The theme here is that the cultures that arise around products, methods, and inventions often grow to exclude discussion of their fatal flaws, and instead find elaborate ways to paper over them -- to find more and more clever ways to pretend they don't exist. While it may seem that way in hindsight, I am not sure this is a valid way of finding good projects. I am sure that the designers of the iPhone were nervous people would not accept a phone without a physical keyboard, but they found a way to make it useful and preferable, and today no phones have physical keyboards. In my opinion, "papering" over issues is often how we build new exciting things. All technologies have shortcomings, but finding ways to integrate those shortcomings with human behavior or even making them strengths can lead to really interesting products. Sometimes it fails, and that is okay. I'd still rather have people trying though!