{"id":1224,"date":"2010-03-06T00:47:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T05:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2010-03-10T09:17:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T14:17:54","slug":"convenient-and-profitable-for-software-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/03\/06\/convenient-and-profitable-for-software-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;convenient and profitable for software houses&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nSegregating information by its mode of production, convenient and profitable for software houses, too often becomes a corrupting metaphor for evidence presentations. Why should the intellectual architecture of our reports and evidence reflect the the chaos of software bureaucracies producing those reports?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Edward Tufte, <cite>Beautiful Evidence<\/cite>, p. 61<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/economics\/\" title=\"economics\">economics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/evidence\/\" title=\"evidence\">evidence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/software\/\" title=\"software\">software<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/tools\/\" title=\"tools\">tools<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/tufte\/\" title=\"Tufte\">Tufte<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/writing\/\" title=\"Writing\">Writing<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/02\/twilight-of-the-novel\/\" title=\"Twilight of the novel? 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Why should the intellectual architecture of our reports and evidence reflect the the chaos of software bureaucracies producing those reports? &#8212; Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, p. 61 Tags: economics, evidence, software, tools, Tufte, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/03\/06\/convenient-and-profitable-for-software-houses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;&#8230;convenient and profitable for software houses&#8230;&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,52],"tags":[878,520,35,522,521,861],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-jK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":372,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/19\/more-fun-powerpoint-thwacking\/","url_meta":{"origin":1224,"position":0},"title":"More fun PowerPoint thwacking","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"19 Aug 06","format":false,"excerpt":"I just finished my re-read of Tufte's excellent thumping of PowerPoint and there were two more quotes I couldn't resist sharing: At a minimum, we should choose presentation tools that do no harm to content. 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