building with soul

" You never change things by fighting the existing reality. T o change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

Buckminster Fuller

Side projects as the key to the good life By Marty Bell • 31 Jul 2025

When I was 13, I created a chat room for teenagers to talk about art and photography (the tagline was, if I remember, “The future of art but we don’t give a fuck”). I think that was the first self-made project I put out into the world, and it taught me one of the most important

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