Toward a Book of Form

I’m fascinated by correspondence – when we see the same pattern in more than one place, or even a very different domain. A good example is Postel’s Law, sometimes known as The Robustness Principle. Postel's Law states that when you are designing components in software you should design them so that they are open to accepting many kinds of input yet careful about what they produce. It makes connection easier. Larry Wall pointed out that the same advice can be useful in social systems. For exam...