This has strong similarity to the thesis of the classic article "The Anti-Mac Interface": http://www.useit.com/papers/anti-mac.html http://www.useit.com/papers/

This has strong similarity to the thesis of the classic article "The Anti-Mac Interface": http://www.useit.com/papers/anti-mac.html http://www.useit.com/papers/anti-mac.html The connection to the ideas in the Kingdom of Nouns, though, is new and intriguing. It's obvious only in hindsight that job-specific apps can be thought of as nouns, while unix-style tools can be thought of as verbs.