The irony is that I used to give a talk on how to talk people into things (https://third-bit.com/advice/#talking-people-into-things) based on projects like Software Carpentry, the Architecture of Open Source Applications, and It Will Never Work in Theory, but getting the median 20-something coder to care about the impact their work is going to have on other people has defeated me.
@gvwilson
this is a fair point. I don't know how to change their minds.
Norman was the author of one of the textbooks used in a Human-Computer Interactions class I took in the mid 1990s. So I have some respect for him. But today I look at the software world and see almost nothing that follows Norman's advice, despite him being a major figure in the field for 35+ years.
So I don't believe his mode of appeal actually works either.
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