The fascinating thing for me was to realize how closely my approaches, even the order of the approaches I tried, matched those Norman reported to me when he was working on his thesis. At the time, I didn’t quite understand his frustration.
I’m also surprised by how neatly this fits in with my theory on how we understand and solve problems simultaneously by matching parts of them to solutions we already know – by demonstrating how damnably hard it is to tackle problems where that approach doesn’t easily work.
I’m not too sure there is a point to this post, to be honest. It’s just something that, for the reasons outlined, struck me as interesting. Feel free to disagree.
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