Dec 05 2008
maslow’s hierarchy of needs
It’s not a photo, but it is a revelatory work well worth commending to all (i.e., too good to pass up).
Napkin sketches are the source of genius revelation throughout the history of science and technology. “The leading edge of every wave of innovation is flecked with little drawings scrawled on cocktail napkins” — Don Moyer.
These have of course been industrialised and commoditised. But the fact remains: if you can’t say it in a scribble, you can’t say it.
Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs lays out the basic needs in a pyramid: physiological, safety, love and belonging, social esteem and self-actualisation. The upper layers aren’t enough as long as the lower layers aren’t satisfied. You’re just not going to get lots of juicy code from a geek convention without everything else in line.
Picture: “Maslow’s Hierarchy for Geek Events” by David Flanders, 19 November 2008, CC by-sa 2.0.
