I'm sitting in the library as I write this, thinking about the Dewey Decimal System. All those books lined up in organized rows, in an easy-to-find and easy-to-maintain manner. It continues to serve libraries 133 years after its introduction, despite all the changes in the world since 1876.
Ease of use, performance, maintainability - these are hallmarks of software design too. What would happen if we took these same principles and applied them to attitudes?
- Ease of use: attracting (and keeping) what you want in your life.
- Performance: how fast those things you want manifest themselves.
- Maintainability: changing of goals mid-stream.
Whenever there's an opportunity in your life, something you feel isn't there yet and you're impatient for it, ask yourself what design changes you can make to facilitate it. Ask yourself how you can make your mind support you like the Dewey Decimal System has supported libraries so well.
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