{"id":26489,"date":"2010-05-06T22:06:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T22:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/dr-amy-smith-is-a-professor-in-the-department-of\/"},"modified":"2010-05-06T22:06:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T22:06:49","slug":"dr-amy-smith-is-a-professor-in-the-department-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/dr-amy-smith-is-a-professor-in-the-department-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dr. Amy Smith is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where she runs the Development Lab, or D-Lab, a lab organized around simple and cheap engineering solutions for the developing world. Among the rules of thumb she offers for building in that environment is this: \u201cIf you want something to be 10 times cheaper, take out 90% of the materials.\u201d Making media is like that now except, for \u201cmaterials\u201d, substitute \u201clabor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2010\/04\/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models\/\">The Collapse of Complex Business Models   \u00ab  Clay Shirky<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Amy Smith is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where she runs the Development Lab, or D-Lab, a lab organized around simple and cheap engineering solutions for the developing world. Among the rules of thumb she offers for building in that environment is this: \u201cIf you want something to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1341,1342,42,1343,569,767,1212,691],"class_list":["post-26489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-amy-smith","tag-d-lab","tag-design","tag-design-in-development","tag-economics","tag-engineering","tag-majority-world","tag-mit","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Tf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}