when testing a design/product with a user, you have a lot of influence over their reactions in the moment
fight the urge to handhold or help them, instead, inquire into the confusion and really flesh out what is happening in their experience of the product
New essay on TRE.
Guidelines for effective and safe practice.
I go over the basic mechanism behind trauma release exercise, the different traditions that had observed similar phenomena, and the overall philosophy one should have to engage with these techniques.
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Want to be in the most joyful 0.1% of humans? The path is super simple. All you gotta do is:
heal your attachment wounding, work through ancestral epigenetic trauma, welcome the full spectrum of repressed emotions, then feel through waves of pre-verbal existential helplessness
another procrastination thought:
if you only got things done under the threat of parental punishment, then it makes a lot of sense that you'd have a mean voice in your head doing the same all the time.
one very quick way to improve your product:
1) find 3 potential users of your product
2) give them a task or series of tasks, one-by-one to do with your product
3) shut up and watch how they use it
will be a sobering experience for many
maybe we procrastinate because we feel utterly disconnected from the thing we're telling ourselves we should do
my fix is to drop it, go out, take care of my nervous system, and come back to connection with the world
insights (in research and life) rarely come from thinking about something long, hard, and often.
its more like an unveiling or remembering of something that feels so obvious in the moment but was unknown before.
when building something new
spend time understanding the context within which the new thing will exist
observe without judging or coming to theories, its very much like an absorptive meditation, to do it well means to become embedded in the context
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