I'm at my second event of the Indie Web Club, Bangalore. Today, we were talking about digital gardens and one of the prompts was publishing a "living document" — something which isn't in a finished state at the time of publication, and keeps evolving over time (like a Wikipedia article).
In the spirit of the prompt, I'm gonna write a list of hot takes I have (and I have many), and hopefully keep coming back to update it once in a while.
Also, taking inspiration from Ankur's post, I'm going to present my hot takes without nuance, context, or evidence.
- Most of your opinions should be incorrect, or else you're not thinking (independently) enough.
- People (almost) never make decisions rationally.
- People use the word "art" to justify a lot of nonsense.
- Design is more useful than art because you design things for people.
- Cultural appropriation is not possible. All culture evolves through borrowing or acquiring ideas from elsewhere; the alternative to cultural appropriation is no culture.
- The world would be a better place for everyone without personal vehicles (cars and motorbikes specifically; bicycles and scooters are fine)!
- Windows is an objectively better OS than MacOS.
- You should not take notes while reading a book (most of the time).
- Romantic relationships are less important than friendships.
- You should never start working on something without imposing constraints on yourself. (I'm out of time for today, so the list ends here for now.)