Adam, Should good designers read %u201Cin the history of adjacent design disciplines%u201D? Yes. My guess - all responders here agree with that notion. So actually the debate is not around what I perceive as your main point. It is more about tone, language, twitter lists, whose fault it is etc... You say you meet many juniors who do not read outside recent Ixd more practical stuff. Well you are probably right; they are probably not great or even good designers. Some of them will never be. Others will mature, read more, have the talent and experience and become good designers. Are all designers really good? Do all designers read great, inspiring books? Hey we%u2019re (as for designers) human, so for me the obvious answer is NO. The same answer is true for other design disciplines. Do all Architects read these books? I don%u2019t think so. Is reading in the history of adjacent design disciplines part of education programs? Is it part of the agenda on conferences and journals? Now that is important and it should be there (and usually is)! %u2026 but you wouldn%u2019t know %u2026 %u201CI don%u2019t follow those names, pay any attention to the various sites and journals people like me are supposed to read, or attend the community%u2019s events%u201D So for me, on your main point %u2013 we agree. I would like to address two minor issues that came up as part of your responses here. One %u2013 you are disappointed from people%u2019s twitter list for not having any inspiring people there. Do you really mean I will get more deep and inspiring knowledge from someone%u2019s twits? 140 characters of inspiration- that%u2019s it? Well as for me, I look elsewhere for inspiration. My twitter is more about fun and practical info. I think you are looking in the wrong place. And about language %u2013 I actually envy you for your large vocabulary. How to write your blog, well that is, as you probably know a question of goals. Do you want others to read your blog and if so who are these others. Only you can answer that. I would like to note that %u2013 some of us actually went to a %u201Cuniversity worth the name%u201D but the teaching language was not English. I definitely think that it is not only looking outside our discipline but also outside our culture, don%u2019t you? -Nurit www.nuritperes.com
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