Personality

Think

Focus

Memory

Flexability

Endurance

Speed

Balance

Nutrition

Hygine

Survival

Energy Design

Time

Digital Space

Home Space

Work Space

Mental Space

Budget

Liberty

Love Strategies

Purpose?

Story Telling

Learn as an example how to learn

Modes of Learning

Bike Riding Base

Montisori Base

Iteration Base

undefined Ender Fallacy The Straw Man Fallacy Adhominium Fallacy False Dicotomy(Black and White) The Bandwagon Fallacy The Appeal to Authority Fallacy The False Dilemma Fallacy The Correlation/Causation Fallacy The Anecdotal Evidence Fallacy Cherry Picking Fallacy The Burden of Proof Fallacy The "No True Scotsman" Fallacy Plausibility=possibility=likely fallacy Appeal to Emotion The Fallacy Fallacy Conjunction Fallacy Overfitting Underfitting Problem of induction Bias Opportunity cost Sunk Cost Loaded Question Begging the question (Circular) Appeal to Nature Genetic Fallacy Special Pleading Ambiguity No You Us Them

Show your work

Patience

undefined Theory What is logic? How would you define good logic? Dotails-Start with some examples, or better yet start with the goal of logic; to learn truth and communicate truth. The teacher said it would be like defining restruction a made up term. That's why he says to start with examples. Here are some bad ones; It's raining so I should bring an umbrella. I calculated the size of the room I'm in is 0. I know that altruism means sacrifice, I know that socialism sacrifices the rich to the needy, socialism is a system of altruism. Teacher says ask rebooting question; What facts of reality give rise to the need for such a concept? This is what I was saying that we start by understanding the need. In this case what facts give rise to the need of logic? Reality is independent Wishes and Beliefs and Preceptions don't normally change Facts, if they did you wouldn't need logic. We are free But you do need to think/judge wether the fact is true. The fact is presented, i need mountain dew, if I don't do work on that fact I am going react to what could be false. If I instead do work(logic) I can defend against false facts. We are limited and imperfect Ignorance and error is possible. Logic is a method of work to determine truth. Logic is a set of procedures for building and verifying knowledge(true concept of reality) Logic is a tool of integration and connecting different concepts. Logic is to form a concept which is to distinguish(draw a line) between a range and a foreign range. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. Art : A method involving choice and judgement. Identification : Discovery of identity(reality). This is done through integration(connecting appropriately and applying concepts of reality along those connections.) All thinking is a process of identification and integration(connections). mankind learns to identify a perceived object as a table, he learns the table is made of wood made of cells made of molecules made of atoms. This process(work) is for the purpose of answering "what is it" he means to establish truth which is logic. What is the steps of this method? Right Materials Preception (Proper collection of new knowledge) (Tests, senses, interpretations, corrections) Orientation (Compare based on a fundamentally appropriate characteristic) Connection (Integrate well) What are the Axioms of Logic Law of Identity A is A Law of Contradiction and Excluded Middle A isn't non-A Either A or non-A To be is to be something, so to be non-A is to be something else Because reality isn't contradictory if your identification is contradictory then you can know it doesn't reflect reality and is false. Also need to distinguish regular and exceptional reality. A way to do that is to use logic on logic by making the argument; If reality is independent from our will, and work, then proper logic will produce true statements. Sometimes the work of sharing logic is to share preceptions/definitions/knowledge but if you both have equal knowledge instead you will be activating the knowledge and drawing the connections to the logical conclusion. Give examples of Philosophy determines the course of history Thinking in Examples and Principles "To understand principles you have to think in examples" Wider Abstractions vs Exampled Convictions. The process of integration. Building a consistent holistic world view. Why do we want a world(reality) view rather than a situation only view? because it is sturdier and more likely to stand up against reality. We can have other motives but a stable foundational world view should come first if you hope to stand on any other view. Principles are abstractions and don't exist but can be perceived concrete through examples which do exist. Homework terms to define seven, I didn't know how to define, but he said the number just following 6 in a series of whole numbers. This is enlightening because it requires a history of knowledge to build upon like he first taught. The point is don't be circular window; a hole through which light and or air can pass. if this was defined with glass and sill in the definition you would be guilty of a "certain error" using current examples but instead of metaphysical wider examples of the principle of a window. Any man made thing is defined in terms of it's purpose, except life, and indeliberate junk. the point of this homework is don't be parochial(narrow) war; the act of fighting, or a specific fight on a large scale. Who says how large is large scale? A number of people could be given as part of the definition. prize; A cherished result of praise or of a praiseworthy action. dignity; a feeling of worth, or an action the produces that feeling racism; an act or belief that is rooted in unequal value among a species about race. How to Define Terms What facts of reality give rise to the need for definitions? What is the purpose of definitions? Every 1 of the 30,000 non-proper words indicates a concept. Definitions give you a means to sort your concepts. It's for recalling the already sorted concepts not for categorizing new concepts. Genus deferential method, Genus category or kind, Differentia is the difference or what makes it special within the category. I'm noticing this is further hierarchal and linear relationships and nested like windows folders, but from experience this is a wholly insufficient method for sorting, the superior method is unbound prioritized tagging and strict id number. He said it just needs to be fast but computers can help tags be possible through auto real time translation. Aristotle's rules can have exceptions these are just considered useful for him. He thought you can't know enough to define a thing perfectly because how do you know if the scope is too broad or too narrow until after you've defined all the things. The teacher's answer is that definition is the last step, so first you conceptualize the concept then you define it with a word. Rule 4 what is the fundamental difference in the thing? Rule 5 obey the fact that the human brain can only hold a few things in attention. Also the definitions aren't the unit but the node for calling up the connections to that node. So dog is for pulling up "likes bones" "produces hairballs" "sounds barks" Give examples of the concepts What facts of reality give rise to a need for the concept Give examples of nearest relative Identify the category Identify the difference that distinguishes it from other items in that category Formulate; write it all, essentialize it, Test against the rules at the end. I say instead the definition in the mainstream what the author of the claim intended not what the original definition is. How to Define Terms Part 2 The point is this proces is anaogous to thinking logically because there are 2 fundamentals of cognitions, to integrate, and to differentiate. Fallacies

Preception

Inference

Proposition

Concept

Principles/Examples

Do I want to save energy and take the elevator

Do I want to save time and take the elevator

Do I want to wire my brain to take the hard choice by taking the stairs

Intuition emotional low resource cost

Logical, methodical, considerate, high resource cost

Base Assumptions

Standard of evidence

Domains

Conclusion

Thresholds

Conclusions

Reality

Belief is a Tool

Belief is not Identity

undefined You can live by truth, First you discover truths, if an option occurs you can check all truth articles to decide from. You can Live by rule, First you discover truth, then you develop rules based on truths, if an option occurs you can check all rule articles to decide from. Both strategies have strengths and weaknesses.

undefined Consider what is worth dieing for, the idea comes to mind on the show stargate when a replicator was made with the purpose of absorbing a planet and dieing in the process, when asked about it, she said it was fulfilling and she looked forward to it.

Life Torch

Love Yourself

Love Team

God's Love

undefined You either give up your life quickly or over a lifetime, what are you giving it for? People give up their life for freedom, or so their children can live. They do this by dieing for them but what about living for them poured out completely you spend your life either way. The question is what is the most effective way to spend your life.

undefined Also loose pride in success or ascribe success with money or independence.

undefined Make friends so you can live without fear of having no money. You can always crash on their couch for a couple weeks then move onto the next friend until your back up on your feet.

undefined Feelings about the future that hasent happened. You are completely healthy but your body is acting like it's already happened. See will smith on fear. But stress begets more inflammation and adriniline which can beget more stress and a runnaway rollercoaster is like loosing your freedom to brain chemicals. If you can reclaim your control over your stress the rest can follow.

undefined Freedom is a strength that gives you space to move.

Slavery

Addiction

Debt

How to say no

Emotion

Stop

Sequence Trap

Will Power

Self Discipline

Self Control / Story Telling

Promises

Mind Palace

Escape Sim

Timeheart

Escape to the Past

undefined In the future humanity will live in a virtual reality universe of their own creation. The CoOS will be that reality. If you could choose one super power what would you choose to have? The CoOS will give you every Super Power.

undefined POWERLESS "I'm a very creative person, so when a collaborative sandbox came out in 2003, I jumped in head first. To build in Secondlife you drop basic shapes; cubes, spheres, cones..., then you stretch and twist them into eachother to build up your starship which ended up looking like a pile of donuts because that's what it literally was. Like I said I was creative so I tried to force the shapes to become what I imagined, it was miserable as I spend countless hours trying to make one shape blend into another without much success. In 2009 another sandbox came out, and this one exploded, everybody was playing it. We started an online server to build a giant world together. In Minecraft you build by again dropping in objects, but in this case they are all 1meter cubes. This limitation meant everything was square, which for a creative overcomer, means you have to build big and only look at it your work from a far while squinting to be able appreciate any detail. We've built sculptures out of wool and citys in mountains, castles on the ocean and even a floating teapot island! Sound amazing? Only if you were blind. These builds mainly served as labels for the full fidelity of our imagination. Our imagination is where these worlds would have to stay for the time being. Outside the gaming world I trained and got hired as a draftsman designing techology and as an artist illustrating that technology. There I used the tools that professionals use, Polygons, Vectors, Constraints. This was the power I needed to express myself, and looking around these primitive game worlds, it was obvious everyone needed this in their lives." CODELESS "Because of the limitations of basic minecraft we ""modded"" the game, but we weren't actually making the mods, just downloading them. If we saw a bug we would hope ""they"" would fix it in the next update. If we wanted a feature we would just request it online hoping ""they"" would read it and impliment it someday. We were powerless. Then I thought what if I was ""they""? Programmers could make it better. So I started to study how to program and what I learned was programming was hard. You had to learn a new language, the learning curve was steep. Before you can get dirty applying the basics you learn, you first have to then learn multiple frameworks and librarys, Then you had to type that language perfectly, or else it would just refuse to try. You had to teach the computer how to handle it's own resources otherwise a memory leak could crash your program. You would be neck deep in a project only to learn this language is fundamentally incapable of accomplishing this feature so you abandon it and go to another language that can. You have to refactor all your code to work in this new language. By the time you've finished your vision is so watered down in order to somewhat function, the software's almost useless. I started to do some research and found software had a few simple concepts, Condition, Logic, Response, Process, Data, Connections. But these concepts were buried beneath mountains of syntax. We would not put up with someone who ignored our goals with the excuse, ""well I just sat here because technically you said to go to the car but you didnt tell me what foot to use first"" With this revelation cooperating with computers is possible. We will unbury the power of modding and become the ""they"" who can make a difference." FRAMENTED "Once I imagined myself as a modder I started looking at the apps I use differently. Like ""This interface is not aligned!"" or ""this is wasting space on my sceen I wish I could just drag this smaller."" ""Dude, I love that tool I wish ""they"" had that in this other app."" ""Why is this missing?"" ""I have to export this and reimport it onto that app just to apply the mask?"" What if I could rip out that tool and reconnect it to my prefered app? Why not make all the tools sort of an app themselves, indipendant yet mixable. We could even make a super tool customized for all our individual preferences. As I toyed with the idea of customizing a super app, I considered what I would include in mine and noticed the learning curve for all these tools was unwarrented. If I gave you a hundred tools and told you to build a house, the task would be overwhelming, but in fact you only need a few of those tools, the rest are redundant and alternate ways to do the same thing. For example, Extend is all you need to make a solid shape, but all these tools; extrude, revolve, sweep, coil, emboss, rib, thicken, thread, they do the same thing; Extend, be it around a line or along a line. Consolidation gives everyone easy to use tools with the full power of the elite apps. The us and them illusion that seperates powerful professionals and the imaginitive kid is a lie made of over complexity. Then I thought why stop there? The apps arn't just tools but content too. Each app and website has a new interface to learn seperated databases but the same content types. What if we consolidated this content into a unified format? Then you could control how you engage with it. To my horror I realized these are all the same thing being fed to us with multiple spoons. Communication Lists: Email, Txt, Pm, Chat, Comments Feed Lists: Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, News websites Media Packets: Videos, Movies, Podcasts, Audio Books, Camera Library Value Lists: Documents, Spreadsheets, Databases, Mindmaps Finally the internet would feel concise and elegant and managable." HOMELESS "For all the limitations of Minecraft and Secondlife, they had an amazing feature, a connected world. In principle no longer were there invisible walls seperating us. We lived together in a bigger universe. I'm exploring a cave but just outside my brother is building his house and over the horizon my friend was cutting down a tree with his bare hands and to the north my team just reappeared in their beds after dieing to a horde of pigzombies. They say home is where your friends are. Even if they weren't in this cave I was home. But in 2013 a new wall appeared . I was building a city in a dome on a mountain. Everyone got their hands dirty and chipped and we finished laying the last block by the end of the week. Our most ambitious build yet. All that dedication and invested time, we surprised ourselves. Then everyone went to their houses and logged off to bed. I stayed up planting grass on the newly carved mountain side. but the next morning nobody woke up. Nobody was in their houses. I checked the online list. I was alone. I went on skype and everyone was online but playing overwatch or league of legends or hearthstone. I tried to join them but to jump the walls between games you have to be on time and in step, everyone was seperated. So I sit in my Japanese Style House, in my square rocking chair that doesn't rock, and watch the square sunset as the truth sunk in, we were homeless. I was devistated but didn't realize how much until a new creative game came out. ""Hey you wanna play starbound with me?"" A space themed 2D minecraft. ""Sure."" I said and hopped over the wall. But then we got to playing around and we were like 'we could build a base and then and after some grinding upgrade our ship...' then as we began to build it became obvious we were spent, we couldn't build those giant ambitious projects anymore. At first I thought it was because we just all nighted it through the mountain city build but that wasn't it. We were scarred as if we just had a divorce and didn't want to be hurt again. Turns out creativity is like love, you can't build and then destroy or abandon your creation without a sense of loss and demorialization. I'm a creative person who can't create. They actually did a study where they paid kids to build bionicles(lego robots) and in a second group they did the same but dismantled their last robot right in front of them as they worked on the next. that second group did half as many builds before they had enough. I feel like I don't want to build in another world until I feel I'm not waisting my time contributing to a world that will be abandoned or destroyed."

undefined We provide Power, Freedom and True Cooperation by developing Limitless, Seamless, Shared; Space, Tools, and UI, through Software and Services.

undefined Lived In Universe, with history from past cultures littering the world to uncover. Outerwilds, As you explore this Galaxy you learn about an alien race that visited the system and uncover clues of where they went and what projects they were working on and their debates over what would be the best path, you could find their secret passages, homes, and the stories of their failures. Watchdogs, You travel across an open world full of people and listen in on their conversations as they go about their lives and even hack into their apartments to see they are going about their lives even out of view. This is just scripted events but the idea that all NPCs have a life even when your not watching is compelling. That would provide a real person with which to interact, interfere, or partner with. Stumble onto community projects, be compelled to join in, or be inspired to build or collaborate Time Lapse of the Enterprise being built in Minecraft by hundreds of people at once captured this. Gource Visualization captures the same feeling but for programming projects. Imagine you are flying through space and you see these filiments twinkling and humming in the distance and as you approach time is displayed showing you the progress and slowing to present time as you get close. Something to write home about Mork and Mindy, My Little Pony Reboot, A measure wether a story was good, is if you were in the characters shoes you couldn't help but tell everyone about it. Adventures That Create Bonds Journey, The blizzard story from Journey; In the game you can't speak only chirp, as you play you randomly run into other players who are also headed for the same goal, you join eachother and help eachother, but as you get higher up the mountain we encountered a blizzard, the wind was deafening and our visibility as minimal, the wind would pile snow onto us if we stayed still and came in surges that blew us back, we were both struggling to survive and then i discovered I could hide from the wind behind a rock, I called out to my friend but he couldn't hear me over the wind. he was being buried alive and all I could do was watch and try to get his attention. the next morning when the blizzard had ended, he was gone. But this little game had me bond with someone I just met. Nonshalont God-like creating. Ambition short film, Planet formation as an education curiculium World Builder short film, Creating a town for you loved ones.

Revenue Streams (What ways do we make money?)

Cost Structure (Where will we spend invested money?)

Channels (How are we reaching our customers?)

Product Build Release Schedule (What are your milestones?)

Key Activities (What does the CoOS team do?)

Key Resources (What is used to perform those activities?)

undefined Indie Developers Gamers Game Developers CAD designers Artists Software Developers The entire world isn't our customer, so if someone wants to misue our software or demand that it become something outside our vision we don't need to comply. Some people may want to hide 3d objects at ransom of a price but there are other softwares for that. Some may want a software to have a private conversation but there other softwares for that.

Customer Segements (Who are our customers?)

Last Game

iPod First Gen Compatible

Last App

Relay, all in one communications app

Renet, An internet 2.0 feed, disrupting the idea of websites

Mods, Saturate Software Development

undefined By starting with this base assumption you will go further than those who look for signs of impossibility as an excuse to give up. I have never found a problem without a solution, but sometimes while looking I find what I thought was a problem wasn't the real problem. Fake problems can only have fake solutions.

undefined My inspired work is my best work but patience and allowance is key. To foster this I procrastinate better than most. I have a handful of projects that I am allowed to work on one day a week and throughout the week inspiration strikes as I passively make connections without being allowed to act on them beyond taking notes. Then on the work day I take the most inspired notes and act on them. By baking procrastination into your schedule on purpose you turn it into a strategy for inspiration. Again patience is key to success, but learn to wait by doing something else. You are not a domino waiting for your time, instead you are a human with the ability to prepare while you wait and then set your own time for action. Notes Move You may not think you are inspired, but the spark may actually already be in your hands. Start with what you know, do what you can, with what you have. This practice gets it on the table so what comes first or next is more obvious. Spread out the pieces and the holes will become clear. Iteration

undefined Does the viewer believe you achieved what you tried? Design is unfortunately fused with limitation. Time, money, quality, to increase one you often must sacrifice another. There is an exception however. We can establish a context of fidelity by our brush size. If you have limited time to cover a canvas, rather than drawing faster use a larger brush. Having leading many large scale productions, I can assure you this is what lets you unveil on schedule with no objections to the fidelity because it matches the scope. Fidelity has style oasis’s, the deserts between them need to either be fully crossed or you not at all. For example if you don’t have the time to make proper strokes don’t do your best, instead jump down to the next full fidelity style you can accomplish in your limitations such as Pointillism. Add Examples Quality over quantity, goodness over popularity, value over expectation Define the edges and consolidate your spark rather than spreading it out. When I produced movie sets as art pieces rather than spreading out the props over the entire exhibit hall, I consolidated them into a fully complete scene. Some designers add white space to “let it breathe” but white space is a natural result of consolidated value. Don’t release content every week because that’s the expectation instead focus on the content and release it when it provides a fair value for their time. Be honesty with yourself and your audience, are you capable of the scope you are framing up? Let's say the honest fidelity for a scene includes a line thickness that is proportional to the whole scene, if you draw this scene on a larger canvas then you have to increase your instrument/line thickness to keep the honest proportion. I often remember my family saying to fill the page because I would draw very small pictures but the fidelity matched so the skill came through. Ignoring bad advice that says to walk a tight rope before you can walk a curb is honest.

undefined Try again something that’s been tried to death, try to reinvent the wheel, goodbye wagons, try something new, even if they like it the old way, try to fix something thats not broke, try to set a new standard to then break again. As a designer you are free. Don’t let anything shy of good reason stop you from trying. Question everything, authority, popularity, criticism, success, history, education, profession, orders, questions, claims, evidence, poles, ... The customer is not always right. People can often be unaware what they want, or what’s wrong let alone what’s right.

undefined Good design is noticing an obstruction long enough to remove it. Many people get annoyed at an obstruction the first time, the second time they remember it was annoying but the third time they ignore the annoyance and just bare the friction. These frictions add up until people are crawling and don’t know why they aren’t making progress. The designer however doesn’t ignore obstructions they fester like a grudge until they are inspired enough to fix them and we can all benefit from that.

undefined Anything you can imagine you can make. Remove the concern of limits via automated preparation, presentation, farming, and slide of hand. The engine will continually work to maximize priority qualities. Visible entities, changes, distance. thermos, threads, polycounts, stroke counts, boundaries... Some people say, “limitation breeds creativity” logically humans can create their own constraints without systematic limitation being forced onto them, plus they can create what the limited cannot so I say freedom breeds more creativity.

Prepare

Present

undefined There are no walls in space. The universe is like a list of tagged content, you can refine that content into a single combined universe or refine it for a cozy personal universe. But you can’t enforce an invisible impenetrable wall on other’s. The CoOS tears down walls. There is no installing or loading or opening worlds, but instead you travel to worlds in a single seamless stirring pot. Look up at the night sky, you see a distant star of millions and you can fly up and travel there where you may find a world full of people making their own culture, cities, roads and you look back and you can see the world you just left all in a seamless environment." "Invisible Walless Loading Screenless Edit Modless Play Modless Leveless Objectless Sketchless Demoless Paywalless Functionwalless you should be able to use a search tool in any app, or a comment tool on any content this maybe should go in tool principles" Walls Government's put up walls to keep people out. Prisons put up walls to lock people in. Business put up walls to squeeze people. Social Media puts up walls to divide people. But every wall can and will be overcome, be it throwing up a ladder, drilled through with plasma and explosives, torn down with hammers and rope, or flown over with planes. This overcoming trend will not stop as long as humans exist. Games shouldn't be a demo of a genre or feature but a part of a big picture. In VR the age of game demos resurged as everyone was finding their footing and pushing the limits of a feature, but like the games before we expanded that world and backstory to be more believable and reasonable why were are escorting this soldier or opening the playground to your novel solutions using any combinations of features that would have been games in themselves long ago Proceedural generation will finish the planet letting you focus on your town to insure the world is seamless.

undefined You are not alone here. Massively MultiMaker Online (thousands of people can cooperate and create in real-time in 1 universe) Shared Storage (All content is made by anyone and free for anyone) Nothing is deleted, not even history. This will make the CoOS more valuable over time as the universe and library of creation grow. By this we will all contribute to a universe that breathes and grows instead of creating lonely pocket sized universes. You can share people too so you can copy your friends into your village to populate it and whatever they do where they are aware, they will also do in your village with path finding corrections This should go in Shared Space Designs Multiplayer is the default. Loneliness should be opt in. You can mute people from you perspective but they are in a shared universe by default., There is no longer the question if a game is multiplayer or not. Mineless There is no such thing as mine here. You may be holding a glass but that glass is in every pocket. Scarcity does not exist here. Paywalless You are free to join any adventure land any planet, open any door without condition. The only wall is perspective, you can wear a lens that disables specific abilities by choice and hides people not wearing the lens so you and your friends can be sure you are struggling and overcoming together. Remixfull Anyone can change anything at minimum from their own sharable perspective. The most locked down you can make an object is to save your version to a lens so if any changes are made you and those wearing your lens won’t see it. Grindless Steps in with procedural solutions to repetitive tedious tasks, and you don’t have to pick a hundred berrys to ride the gandella if you don’t want. You can skip the early levels of a tower and start your adventure half way up if you want to. Lockless This is an open door universe without locks or gatekeepers Competionless Idea Walless If we make an inverse kinematics model for a character the next person should not have to start from scratch on theirs. We should building a collective paradise. One brick on top of the last instead of only setting bricks next to eachother. You are a problem solver, but many of the problems we solve every day have already been solved. What if we considered not only space as shared but all of creation so we can combine our talents and efforts into a super solution. A shared universe is a cooperative universe.

Shared Files

Shared Space

undefined The universe is always changing and your Space Reactor’s job is to update the universe with the Mods you spawn. If you spawn a ball into the universe even if you didn’t originally create it, your reactor is running that ball. The universe therefore is highly parallel. If I am subscribed for 10 trillion flops I could fill the universe with 16billion reactions per frame simultaneously. Everyone is running their own set of processors. That’s a lot of changes at the same time. Add up all the operators including you and we have a living scalable universe.

undefined Consolidate interfaces by unifing features that are related and separating targets that are unrelated. Redundant features and Bloated targets has made easy power tools too complex to for anyone to use. It is popular to think the only options are; powerful complex tools, or easy simple tools, or somewhere in the middle. However this principle claims that by consolidating tools, thus making them more powerful, you make them less complex to learn. Clear and Concise principles obsolete Consistency and Simplicity principles. If you aren't making a new interface for every new feature, then it’s already consistent. If you aren't repeating the learning curve, then the interface is plenty simple. Redundant features are any that have been repeated elseware in the same target category. Commonly repeated features include; controllers, menus... Bloated features are any that belong to another target or family. Parent features include features like windows, scale, help, search, font that work accross the entire system.

Redundant Examples

Bloat Examples

undefined Why is a bubble’s shape a sphere? It is in equilibrium between all the forces at play, surface tension and air pressure. Elegance isn’t Minimalism. These bubbles are fully elegant even though more forces are at play. Elegance balances 2 types of forces. Destiny (target result) can’t change. If you find your target is moving, you may be aiming for the air instead of the target. It is vital to identify the most fundamental, indivisible goals. Provision (technical methods and limitations) is frequently changing, with progress in research, technology, and infrastructure. For this reason, elegance is also a frequently changing state and so your interface must be rebalanced just as frequently. It is vital to identify all the provision forces in order to achieve balance.

undefined An interface that isn’t readable/reachable is useless. Typically design caters to the majority operator and then add on settings for the most impared. The result is an ugly useless interface for all but the minority rando that lands in the sweetspot. But what if we could know every operator’s ability? If we give the interface sight, we could tailor the interface in real time.

undefined Interfaces without permanent consequences results in fearless empowered users. Everything the user does, from selection to change, from menus to undo itself, should be remembered forever. Baking and other algorithms can be used but a copy needs to be made so all changes are reversible and earlier changes are changeable with the effects rippling down the history. This history acts as copies of the content in the different states and can be copied and tagged for later use or hotkeyed for reproducing functions or content. This isn't simply a scrubbable timeline but a list of actions that you can repeat or save for later. This also serves as a clipboard since your selections can be used as reference for later use. This also goes for completing a task in any order, making a clipboard an unlimited stack, and tweaking your selection precision. Study what makes an activity intimidating and remove that risk. Inviting, Unintimidating, Cute, style, this is actually not just fun but important Never save again. Every action you do is safe so no need to save yourself. All you might want to do is copy a version to a list for easy access. HIstory including tools, selections, and undos themselves. These serve as a cad feature list too. Nondestructive tools. Making tools procedural pages that can ripple effects.

undefined "You don’t know best, Interfaces are a cooperative activity so share the interface options with the operator. Don’t build channels as if you know what the operator wants or as if what you want the operator to do is more valid than what they want to do. Never Popup, give the operator the freedom to choose how content is displayed. Never popup, even when asking, “are you sure?” just do what your told instead of doubting the user and offer alternatives in the feed they have preset for inputs. Get out of people’s faces and out from under their cursors. Notices should appear in a reserved area out of the way, or better yet, user defined. Would you appreciate someone who jumped in your face blocking your view, or sneaking a button under your hand when you reach for a tool? The interface is like a waitress, is it best to dump the drink in their eyes, their lap, hand it out to them waiting impatiently for them to take it or is it best to set it on the table for them to take at their own pace? Prereserve an area for notifications and move new notices slowly enough so they dont end up under your cursor mid click. This also applied to workflow, your workflow isn't best, let's let them draw unconstrained imperfect sketches and then go back and constrain or start with constraints and add geometry later. Describe how iobit highlights the continue button that continues what they want not what you just told it you want. There are 2 humble approaches to highlights, ask the user what their goal is, if they tell you you can highlight the route like a GPS. Or keep everything equal opportunity, not knowing what the user’s goals are, you can’t help. Shortcuts can have defaults but these are always replaceable save a ripcord. Ripcord is a safemode way to access the main list in case you deleted other ways to get there. From the main list you can get everything back to a usable state.

Examples

undefined This does not mean an interface must be familiar relying on knowledge already know, because this knowledge is limited. Instead it must communicate. "Visual teaching is your interface’s responsibility. Don’t abandon users to learn through guessing. Make clear what is related, with visible cells, separators, and layers. Make the edges of buttons and handles clear, so users can approach with a reliable plan. Make concepts clear with expandable descriptions, animated glyphs, and embedded tutorials. Build Confidence in the operator. Make it obvious what will happen before you activate a tool, by communicating what the operator can expect before they click. This can be done through animated icons, the help button, and simulating likely application and animating. All related information is accessible from any part of the information. Communication is answering questions, asked or not. What questions are the operators asking? “How do I accomplish my big picture goal? “How do I accomplish this next step?” “What does this do?” “Where is this?” If you are searching through a list, obviously you would want to filter and sort the list to eliminate irrelevant concepts and systematically scroll and highlight what you’re after. But remember, space is a list too, everything you can see should be able to be filtered and sorted and highlighted.

Layers

Apps

Toolbars

Buttons

Tabs

Seperators,

Stacks

Folds

undefined This represents the minimal scale navigation, that every card acts like a single list that can be scrolled through and dug into like a classical directory structure. Clickwheel refers to the original ipod interface.

undefined Path, History, Global, Local

Margin

Contrast

Scale

Selected

Scoped

Hovered

Disabled

Sliders

Day Night Cycle

Magnetism

Animated Icons

undefined Specify as much or as little detail as you want leaving the defaults or procedural generation for the rest.

undefined Constrain as you go or later or never. Block out a plan and go back and detail later or focus on the details you care about and let the system procedurally generate the rest until or if you ever care to.

undefined There is a default for every module's value so you can focus on defining only what you care to and move on while the system automatically fills in what you don’t care to define. These defaults can be changed but there should always be a default.

undefined There are so many more tools you can create for your workflow and more tools you can shortcut on your toolbar for convenience. But the focus of the CoOS tools are to be the minimum vital set of tools capable of creating anything. These tools are the building blocks from which all other tools are made. See Emergent Tools for custom tools beyond the Minimum Vital Toolbox. The way my friend puts this principle is “Why make a square tool if you have a rectangle tool?”

undefined From Shapes, to Tools everything in the universe is a List. So in the Cooperating System, that list should be viewable as a list and have all the privileges and responsibilities of a list; Scalability, Refinablity, Order... This means you can combine features into a single app and it means that when using someone else’s app you are never without your favorite feature, spell check, format font, save a copy, search... Every feature is everywhere. “Smartphone users spend 50 percent of their time in one app & 97 percent in their top 10 apps.”

undefined Because all apps are in the universe they are all a part of a super app so instead of needing to go to various websites to access their content and having various toolsets for each, the tools follow you and the content is fed through your Funnel.

undefined Values can be viewed and modified either directly or indirectly with mirrored cards or controls. A mirrored card copies the content of another card and any changes you make to the mirror also happens to the original. This is useful when scaling down the original for sanity sake in a large instruction network. You can select a card that is scaled down to the size of a bubble and it’s contents are easily viewable in the mirror card so you can indirectly control it without having to scale up the original and loosing context of the big picture. Controls will be covered as it’s own tool in the next section.

Pointer

Selections