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		kmill on Aug 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001) Distance might be rather a symptom of senseless abstraction. Abstraction is throwing away details. If you throw away the right details, solutions are simpler. If you throw away the wrong ones, you miss the point.

IncRnd on Aug 31, 2021 [–]

Abstraction is throwing away details, yes, which results in a distance of the design from the goal of the product.

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