Most software is a waste of my time. I need software that doesn’t make me fork my attention away from the consumption of information in order to learn how to use the bells and whistles.
What I need are tools that support methods that work. I need accuracy, rapidity, quality, and flexibility in my software because those are attributes that human beings are pretty bad at mastering.
I need computer programs that interact with information, not caring what the form or source is, to facilitate natural, evolutionary ideas in ideas, methods, or tools. I think our focus has been too small, that we concentrate on data too much. We write code like a bunch of linear thinking algebra nerds, instead of writing code like asymmetric intuiting set-theory nerds. The world is non-linear, our cognition of that world is mostly non-linear. It’s only in our structured, conscious Platonic and Cartesian intellectualism that we become rigidly linear. We need more poetry and less formal logic, especially in our business processes and information technology. There is too much chaos, entropy, complexity, and relativity in our world to be able to ‘solve it’ using linear thinking.
I need feedback, good quality feedback about what I’m doing right now, and what it means to me right now, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. “What happens when I do this?” is what I need to know. I need to know if I ought to do it again. I need to be made aware of my actions, particularly the actions that are most consequential to the success or failure of whatever it is that is important to me. Outlook doesn’t even come close.