There’s one trick, and it’s simple: stop trying to justify your beliefs. Don’t go looking for citations to back your claim. Instead, think about why you currently believe this thing, and try to accurately describe what led you to believe it.

There might have been some irony in the article. But good tips!

Thanks Gunnar. I have added your recipe to the article at https://www.tomdekan.com/design-blindness

Actually Gunnar_Zarncke, may I add your soup recipe as a fun addition to the article?

I agree with you. You have to design/build a lot of things to develop a design instinct. 

In case you find it helpful, one 'executable strategy' to develop a design instinct is making art.  This could be sketching your room, painting a picture of a tree in your garden, or making 3D models on Blender. These design activities tend to transfer well to other domains.  

(Executable strategy concept: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Executable_strategy)

Sounds tasty! Thanks Gunnar

Nicely put.

That's an interesting comment about environmental destruction. I think that I disagree. I would say that almost environmental damage is bad. For example, I hate seeing people discard plastic wrapping or throw things out of their car window. Every action like that spoils a part of nature that has evolved over millenia. Increased scale certainly makes environmental destruction worse.