Week 8- Reflection

After reading this week’s readings, a section of the book Emotion & Attractive and the article “Her Code Got Humans on the Moon–And Invented Software Herself”, I can feel a beautiful correlation between the two texts that allows me to have a deep sense of how I may do my work one day. It is inspiring from both texts to see how a simple idea can someday go beyond the point and objective it was made for. Margaret Hamilton’s invention that had a single objective is now a $400 billion industry. I would like to think it is mostly her love and passion for what she does that encourages her to take a few extra steps even after ensuring everything is going to be perfect. Her project reached the moon and came back to earth to fulfill more objectives. Relating this to the book Emotions & Attractive, I think it is very much okay to go above and beyond what the main purpose could be if someone decided to just do it. It serves as some kind of motive to include what makes me happy and not be afraid of the limits cause there really are no limits to begin with. The author collects pots with different shapes, he thinks they are beautiful, but some of them don’t serve the objectives they’re supposed to. This still does not stop him from collecting them simply because he wants to. It is comforting to allow ourselves to do or collect random interests without needing to explain why. However, it is also a good idea to implement aesthetics into the design of an object in order to help people perform the required objective with minimal effort. For example, moments of hazards or anxiety could limit the view of surroundings to someone, so coming up with an ideal psychological design can be extremely helpful to help get out of danger safely and quickly.

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