The book of recipes
Yesterday, me and my friend Elena, who came to visit, after a long walk through Camden and a quite sweaty way back through the Central Line where we almost die of dehydration, decided to prep a salad for a extremely late lunch (5pm is even late for spaniards, yes)
As I was cooking some beans and tofu she started chopping some avocado. While I usually chop the avo in dices and then scoop it to the plate, she scooped the whole half first and then sliced it.
This candid situation reminded me about how a couple weeks ago, me and some colleagues were sketching an icon at the same time on Figma, and how each of us followed a different procedure to get the same shape.
Although each of us usually tend to hold on our own methods and ways, there’s beauty on grasping and learning others’. When it comes to work on a team, embracing the diversity of methods not only makes empathy grow, but it creates a small invisible ‘book of recipes’ where things can be done in 5 successful ways, differently.
However, nowadays obsession with efficiency and speed on task-solving and working, often push people to detach from their own methods to follow someone’s who is faster, more efficient and productive.
Some may prefer to have a single and perfect “cookie dough” recipe, but to me, as work is made by different humans with different backgrounds and knowledge, I’d rather create a book of recipes that celebrates variety over performance.
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Yours,
H.