"We need to think less like machines and make machines think more like humans." #readingToday  

Instead of thinking about URLs and HTTP methods first, we should think about semantics apart from implementation. What are the actions that will be taken in our API? How will we name and describe these actions? Who are the users of the API and why will they want to interact with the API? The goal is to move all of this shared understanding away from the source code into API description documents, profiles, and media types. This is what allow us to decouple from implementation.

To put this differently, we need to think less like machines and make machines think more like humans. We need approaches that allow us to think freely about a problem space and make the technology take the shape of thought, rather than making thought take the shape of technology.