How does one know what they want until they see it or imagine it?
When you can't imagine, you're stuck with searching, searching that comes in many forms, such as scanning catalogs, walking aisles, or letting someone else do it altogether.
If you can imagine what you want and describe it with sufficient language, you can have someone else (or something) go and fetch it for you, but you're still stuck with the problem of not getting _exactly_ what you want, so again, you must parse the results... or get stuck with whatever is returned first.
Ad the end of the day, it's a question of how much you care about getting the thing you want vs getting something that is close enough, and the answer is in how much effort you, personally, want to spend.
But this actually comes from my own voice. When I ask this question to peopple around me, most don’t even seem bothered by the process anymore. It feels like we’ve simply been conditioned to accept it. From the old printed catalogs.
How does one know what they want until they see it or imagine it?
When you can't imagine, you're stuck with searching, searching that comes in many forms, such as scanning catalogs, walking aisles, or letting someone else do it altogether.
If you can imagine what you want and describe it with sufficient language, you can have someone else (or something) go and fetch it for you, but you're still stuck with the problem of not getting _exactly_ what you want, so again, you must parse the results... or get stuck with whatever is returned first.
Ad the end of the day, it's a question of how much you care about getting the thing you want vs getting something that is close enough, and the answer is in how much effort you, personally, want to spend.
Why would I give you my thoughts, in my own voice, if you clearly won't use your own voice to ask?
But this actually comes from my own voice. When I ask this question to peopple around me, most don’t even seem bothered by the process anymore. It feels like we’ve simply been conditioned to accept it. From the old printed catalogs.
Look at the Grainger catalog which has hundreds of pages, and also is quite well-done online.
With the book in your hand you can flip through over 100 pages per minute, that puts the online version to absolute shame.