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Apostolis @apostolis@social.coop

12/5/2025, 8:08:16 AM

Public

@toxiKarsten Schmidt imagine placing bricks at random without an architectural design, what would you build?

You can't even build a wall.

Thinking in multiple levels of detail is crucial for any endeavor.

@khinsenKonrad Hinsen

Karsten Schmidt @toxi@mastodon.thi.ng

12/5/2025, 8:29:54 AM

Quiet public

@apostolis @khinsenKonrad Hinsen Maybe this reply clarifies it some more: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115660898832053421

In my own practice and the projects I've been involved in, I found bottom-up design to be a powerful method for encouraging better composition, flexibility, re-usability and emergent behaviors by not presuming ahead of time to know or understand all the aspects, detail facets and interconnected implications of a grand master plan. Having a rough vision (or plural) is crucial, though. Allowing the vision to change, equally so...

Karsten Schmidt (@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)

@muratk5n@fosstodon.org I'm not at all rejecting the notion or necessity of Big Think™, especially for what you described, but to me it's more a level of detail question. Regardless of Yunus being a banker, I find the quoted approach very fruitful in a lot of other contexts/practices (incl. design and art) and can be done in parallel. Big ideas can be, and usually are, (re)composed from smaller insights, especially those already implemented/validated. In fact, these smaller insights (or building blocks) should be allowed to actively change the change/direct your bigger plans/ideas over time... On the other hand, in easily corrupted top-down hierarchical systems (like most of our socio-economical structures), how feasible is it really and how long would it take to even agree on and work out governance/regulation/enforcement frameworks for what you mentioned, all whilst everyone else is in the lower echelons remains in stasis...

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