Beautiful Things From the Past
james-lucas.com
Beautiful Things From the Past
How we traded beauty for efficiency
sublimeinternet.substack.com
Why do we build such ugly stuff these days?
Look around: buildings, benches, and doors increasingly feel rushed and disposable. Somewhere along the way, we traded beauty for efficiency and craft for convenience.
And so, I've produced the film below.
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David Perellx.com
They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy.
But in the quiet moments between tasks, I felt something missing. Not the missing of empty inboxes or completed lists. The missing of wonder. Of discovery. Of the slow, sacred act of paying attention.
So I
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