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History is full of what-ifs. It is tantalising to speculate what Sheila Fell, already recognised at her death as a significant force in 20th-century painting, might have gone on to achieve.
Cate Haste • Book of the Week: Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint by Cate Haste
Things designed by people without skin in the game tend to grow in complication (before their final collapse).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
In Julio Torres's 2023 film Problemista, a major story element is the insistence by the character Elizabeth (Tilda Swinton) that her husband's art be catalogued using FileMaker Pro, "the Cadillac of archival software," and her refusal to consider alternatives like Google Sheets. The character Alejandro (Torres) falsely claims familiarity with... See more
Speed is essential. Beyond tech speed, I can recognise other types of speed, though I'm unsure how many there are.
Here are a few ideas:
Tech speed – Efficiency in digital processing, communication, process reproduction, raw calculation. No need to think.
Cheetah speed – Raw, biological speed; physical speed at its peak. Evolutionary speed.
Human speed
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Don’t make up problems you don’t have yet. It’s not a problem until it’s a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.
David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework
Greys and browns accentuate the chromatic colours. When they are included is a way to tone down the scene / accentuate a chromatic value.