"be kind, be calm, be safe"
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"Hundreds of years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the type of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that it becomes a tourist destination"
Work smarter, not harder.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Sometimes the answer is nothing
"The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, these are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?" Gandolf
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Chris Kott wrote:So shortest, most complete answer wins, right?
-CK
Mike Jay wrote:I usually say "It's getting multiple uses out of one element of your design. Like a pergola that gives shade, has a gate to your garden, supports grapes and looks pretty."
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-Nathanael
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Jocelyn Campbell wrote:I think of stacking functions as actions, not so much a design principle.
Stacking functions is doing (or building or designing) something that serves more than one function simultaneously.
Nathanael Szobody wrote:Here's my simple description: passive multi-tasking.
We observe that nature stacks functions for the sake of passive multi-tasking , so now we engineer that stacking to serve our purposes.
Take my banana trees, for instance.
Chris Kott wrote:Weren't we looking for a simple description?
"Hundreds of years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in or the type of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that it becomes a tourist destination"
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Abe Coley wrote:a sheep can be a lawnmower that gives you milk & warm shirts.
-Nathanael
Nathanael Szobody wrote:So what's the difference between multi-functional and "stacking functions"?
Wes Hunter wrote: "Stacking" is an active verb, and so it is (or can be) continuous; one can always continue stacking function upon function, in theory at least.
-Nathanael
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