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I had this same internal conversation with myself last night. I'm currently entrenched in a myriad of unrelated hobbies and pursuits, and last night as I sat at my computer and researched what knowledge I needed to build a violin, it hit me: I'm actually not mastering any of these pursuits. Golfing, Motorcycle Rebuilding, Objective C, Angular JS, Guitar, and the list goes on.
I decided last night to do what the article says: Choose one. Just one. and focus on it, serially, not in parallel. So, I've chosen one, and it will be my pursuit for the next 6 months, or until I feel I have mastered it. Then, onto the next one.
Anecdotally, I've recently started playing TF2 again after work instead of exclusively working on a side-project, and I'll be damned if I haven't slept better in months and have had more creativity and stamina to put toward my projects after work. For me, the takeaway from Jack's post was to just make sure you're giving your brain enough time to recharge. and think about other things.
I find that the bottom toolbar is harder to read now, and requires more eye-scanning to figure out what the different icons do. It's not as pronounced and grounded anymore. Also, the top navigation is less intuitive, and more subtle. I'm also finding information and text presentation to suffer as well. As much as I hated the beveled edges and skeumorphic design of the previous iOS, it was much easier to navigate. I'm sure companies and designers will work some of these early-stage kinks out of the interfaces, but I can definitely see a drop UI flow quality and information presentation with the move to this new interface design.