Lingering sound

I once had a professor in college who had worked for Adobe. He said the engineers who created Photoshop did not know how users would use every detail of the filters and tools in the software. They simply tried to develop every imaginable way to manipulate image tools. And they believed that artists and designers would discover the creative performance of their created tools.

Many things work this way: their value to the world is not entirely understood by their creators or predicted.

Visa founder Dee Hock said, 'A book is far more than the part written by the author. It also includes all the content you can imagine and add after reading.'

Writer James Patterson said, 'One of the best things about reading is that even when you're not reading, you can still think of things that extend from the book.'

Mark Twain said it best when he said, 'Wagner's music is better and more thought-provoking than it sounds.'

Excerpt from Morgan Housel, Feb 2023