13 Ways Of Looking at a Post-It Note

It’s the best-designed “thinking tool” in history. What could it tell us about designing software?

Clive Thompson
Forge
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10 min readNov 12, 2021

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What’s the best “tool for thought”?

I write a lot about cognition and technology, so I think about this a ton. I’ve always loved Howard Rheingold’s coinage of “tools for thought” — pieces of tech that help us…

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Clive Thompson
Forge
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I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net