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Alan Cooper’s The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (1999) describes how programmers build software for people like themselves, and how far removed actual end users are from that picture.
Programmers are trained to think differently from users; that can be good, bad, misleading. The book notes keep the full reference.
Book notes: The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
2025
Zettelkasten for Programmers: Pick a Title. It’s Okay to Change Later
Look over my shoulder and find out why my note title is suspiciously generous, maybe even vague, in a context where it’s obvious that this surely won’t be a good title forever.