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The human race is a naturally inquisitive species. We just love tinkering with things. When I recently bought a new iMac, I had it to bits within seconds, before I’d even read the instruction manual. We enjoy working things out ourselves and creating our own mental models of how we think things behave. We muddle through and only turn to the manual when something goes wrong or defies our expectations.
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© 2009 Andy Budd, Simon Collison, and Cameron Moll
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Budd, A., Collison, S., Moll, C. (2009). Setting the Foundations. In: CSS Mastery. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2398-6_1
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