Hot takes that I'll keep updating, or break into independent posts later

I’m at my second event of the Indie Web Club, Bangalore. Today, we were talking about digital gardens and one of the prompts was publishing a “living document” — something which isn’t in a finished state at the time of publication, and keeps evolving over time (like a Wikipedia article).

In the spirit of the prompt, I’m gonna write a list of hot takes I have (and I have many), and hopefully keep coming back to update it once in a while.

Also, taking inspiration from Ankur’s post, I’m going to present my hot takes without nuance, context, or evidence.

• Most of your opinions should be incorrect, or else you’re not thinking (independently) enough.
• People (almost) never make decisions rationally.
• People use the word “art” to justify a lot of nonsense.
• Design is more useful than art because you design things for people.
• Cultural appropriation is not possible. All culture evolves through borrowing or acquiring ideas from elsewhere; the alternative to cultural appropriation is no culture.
• The world would be a better place for everyone without personal vehicles (cars and motorbikes specifically; bicycles and scooters are fine)!
• Windows is an objectively better OS than MacOS.
• You should not take notes while reading a book (most of the time).
• Romantic relationships are less important than friendships.
• You should never start working on something without imposing constraints on yourself. (I’m out of time for today, so the list ends here for now.)