Also, the bridge is out.
I want this to be the first post in the This Is Broken category. To understand it, see Seth Godin’s fabulous talk on things that are broken. Also available here on TED
Why are so many things broken? In a hilarious talk from the 2006 Gel conference, Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, the 7 reasons why they are that way, and how to fix them.
Here’s Seth’s list of reasons why things are broken:
Not my job
Selfish Jerk
The world changed
I didn’t know
I’m not a fish
Contradictions
Broken on purpose
From time to time I’ll be posting Broken things here. Got something Broken to add?
watching that Broken clip of Seth Godin’s made me better appreciate the things that do work, the people who are proactive and competent in their lives/jobs … and it leads to the importance of the concepts in the Linchpin book by Seth Godin