Two types of anxiety: the one that fills you with terror and the other one that tends to rush you.

A solution is framing: how to look at the situation.
A framework proposes to frame a presentation or an oral intervention with the following scale:

• Practicing / Perfection
• Enthusiasm / Audience
• Prepared / Flawless
• One of many / The big one
• Sharing Enthusiasm / Giving a presentation

The right side of this scale is what people normally imagine when they hear public speaking. It is however the wrong framing.

The positive frame would move to the left side of the spectrum. It is just practice, being enthusiastic, only preparation is needed, this is one of many public speaking so get ready for the next one too.

The trick is to switch the focus from yourself and the audience to the ideas in the talk.

The reason it doesn’t matter is because the audience is not the point. And you aren’t the point either. It’s the content. It’s the idea.

The 5 major problems of the current Internet.

(In context of web gardening)

1. Many hypertexts do not require elaborate navigational apparatus.
2. Rigid hypertext structure is costly.
3. The shortest path is not always the best.
4. Large hypertexts and Web sites must often contain both parks and gardens.
5. Use punctuation sparingly; unwanted interruptions are tiresome and intrusive.
6. The boundaries of parks should be especially clear, lest readers see them as mere wilderness.
7. Rigid structure makes a large hypertext seem smaller. Complex and intricate structure makes a small hypertext seem larger, inviting deeper and more thoughtful exploration.

Thoughtful designers lead visitors not only to the answer to their question but to better questions as well.

Highways are judged by efficiency: distance, cost, safety, and time. Garden paths play a different role; they lead us through the best routes, not the shortest. They may bend to pace our journey, curving here to reveal a view, twisting there to lead us through a shady grove or a sunny clearing.

Rigid hypertext is streetscape and corporate office: simple, orderly, unsurprising. We may find the scale impressive, we admire the richness of materials, but we soon tire of the repetitive view. We enter to get something we need: once our task is done we are unlikely to linger. We know what to expect, and we rarely receive anything more.

At times, wilderness is exactly what readers want: a rich collection of resources and links. At times, rigid formality suits readers perfectly, providing precisely the information they want, no more and no less. Indeed, individual hypertexts and Web sites may contain sections that tend toward each extreme.

Often, however, designers should strive for the comfort, interest, and habitability of parks and gardens: places that invite visitors to remain, and that are designed to engage and delight them, to invite them to linger, to explore, and to reflect.

Note of Tim Berbers-Lee.

Put a frame around "engineering" and " ownership"

Note of Tim Berners-Lee.

He lists various Ways of Dealing with Ambiguity:
TODO

Note of Tim Berners-Lee

:has has a lot of possibilities with drag'n'drop. Here the developer uses 3 items: mushrooms, potions and .

For example: dragging some items to make parts of the site grow. https://lynnandtonic.com/assets/images/thoughts/case-study-2022-mushroom-header.mp4

See https://lynnandtonic.com/assets/images/thoughts/case-study-2022-david-rose.mp4 for more real interactions.

A potion adds color: https://lynnandtonic.com/assets/images/thoughts/case-study-2022-home-potions.mp4

I am also anxious about this situation

The overwhelming motivation behind it seemed to be “I made something, here it is”. Sharing things for the sake of showing them to the world. Somebody had created something, then put it online so you could see it. Visit their website (wait for the dial-up to finish), and it’s yours.

Large companies find HTML & CSS frustrating “at scale” because the web is a fundamentally anti-capitalist mashup art experiment, designed to give consumers all the power. — Mia, with valuable secrets 🤫 (@TerribleMia) November 24, 2019

You can stand out of the crowd by simply treating the web platform as what it is: a way to deliver content to people.

The best growth hack is still to build something people enjoy, and then attach no strings to it. You’d be surprised how far that can get you.

Because the federation is disturbing for casual users, it seems normal to

remind ourselves of what social media used to be: a way to connect around shared interests, talk to friends, and discover new content. No grifts, no viral fame, no drama.

The barrier to be free on the web is highly correlated to the level of expertise.

You could loosely map some of them by how easy it is to get started if you have no technical knowledge. [...] The more independence a technology gives you, the higher its barrier for adoption.

Owning, control and independance on the web should be just as easy as signing up for a cellphone plan.

Plus je suis stressé et plus je m’éparpille, une façon de canaliser mon cerveau qui bouillonne, une tentative pour étouffer ce qui remue au fond par un ensevelissement de tâches plus ou moins f·utiles. La beauté de ce mécanisme c’est que même en étant pleinement conscient de cela, je n’ai pas pour autant une prise dessus. Alors je lâche-prise justement, j’accepte cette période, surtout si je sais qu’elle est bornée par une date clé. Savoir qu’il va y avoir un après est déjà libérateur.

Either a <table> or a grid layout?