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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		Like That Scene in "The Wrong Trousers". Posted on 07/19/2002. For an article I'm working on, I just tapped out this turn of phrase: Typically, such problems are addressed by putting in place a series of small projects; unfortunately this approach is something like madly laying train tracks ahead of a rushing railroad car, concerned more with keeping the train moving rather than paying attention to where it’s going--which is often right off a cliff. 4 comments so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "Demonstrating the Value of Design." Next entry: "Get "Get ROI From Design"." Comments: COMMENT #1 Cracking paragraph, Peter! Posted by dave @ 07/20/2002 06:22 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #2 Not only that, but the graphic is fabulous! Is it a Willis & Grommet? joe Posted by joe @ 07/21/2002 12:28 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #3 "Wallace and Gromit", and, yep! I stole the image from here. Posted by peterme @ 07/21/2002 09:28 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #4 And you've touched on the really amazing thing about Gromit's ability -- it's not just that he can lay track that fast, he can *steer* in real(ly fast) time by laying down the right track at the right time. Posted by Marc @ 07/24/2002 03:03 PM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.