Aleksey P

Independent as a hog on ice - determinedly or stubbornly independent.

“Planning strategies means taking into account the personal quirks of some individual who almost always is the source of the blockade, and devising ways to annul his blockade by disarming him, by avoiding him by an end run, or, if necessary and possible, by knocking him on the head - figuratively, of course. The justification is the importance of

“We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.”

Tarkovsky

Reading Stripe’s update on the Agentic Commerce Protocol, it feels like the next iteration of commercializing tech has occurred - perhaps one step removed from AR sets effectively injecting a marketplace AR layer between the user and reality. It’s amazing how much energy is going into crystallizing that as one of the primary lenses through which

In Copenhagen on June 7, 1991, NATO passed a resolution declaring they would neither attempt to gain one sided advantage from the changing situation in Europe nor draw new dividing lines in the continent.

The basic rule of multigenerational chaotic plans is that the first item of information entering the system determines how the system processes subsequent information.

“The catastrophe in the making — in every town and city — indicates that good urban planning principles and traditional codes cannot be replaced by open-ended political negotiations between partial-interest “stakeholders.” Nor can the dominant Modernist typologies — skyscrapers; metastatic, monofunctional suburbs; and McMansions - be sustained

“Having eradicated from the profession the knowledge base of what came before, planners, in the name of progress, try to create out of thin air solutions to problems that for millennia had been resolved. Worse, in their development and construction, they unethically experiment on live subjects. The sole criterion for their designs is that no one