Step 1: Punch a tree
summary
Took apart a tremendous number of everyday devices to map real internals — microwave internals: enclosure, microcontroller, timers and relays, turntable motor, magnetron — and found the same small rotational motors reused in appliances, toys and blenders. Argues that software ideas like loose coupling should inform hardware: proposes smarter, interoperable modules that negotiate input/output and optimize device behavior. Demonstrates slides as disk‑like scalable vector graphics rotating on a fixed axis via an animation library keyed to slide index.
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