Interesting tensions I found so far:

Edit-Commit - difference in editing something to play with it and experiment vs commiting to that change
Creating-Curating - difference between free flow of creating vs critical review mode
Ideating-Authoring - especially in software, we have a lot of apps for authoring, and only a couple for ideating
focused-diffused thinking - as coined by Farnam Street ↗
Improvements vs Breakthroughs - or "Incremental and Radical Innovation"
Mind-Body Dualism - are there both mental and physical phenomena, or is it all physical (or all mental)?
End-User Programming Self-Hosted Systems are in Tension with Direct Manipulation

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Szymon Kaliski