reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
And if you want to predict the future, go to a history lecture or set your WARC case study date filter to twenty years ago.
Matt Waksman • Why the future of Planning is Opera, Only Fans, God, and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
if you want to predict the future, go to a history lecture or set your case study date filter to twenty years ago.
She had it coming .
instagram.comwow, sofia isella is so verbal and lyrical.
The curse of the Michelin star
economist.com
When a restaurant gets a Michelin star: Customer expectations rise, employee wage demands rise, suppliers expect you to pay more, and the restaurant is more likely to go out of business in the ensuing years.
The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found (Published 2001)
nytimes.com
an evocative, beautiful piece of writing about new york city written just after 9/11. recommended by Andy Weissman.
As I will use the term, then, a sermon is any message designed to change or reinforce what a group of people value. It might take the form of explicit exhortation, full of shoulds and shouldn'ts , oughts and mustn'ts . Or it may be entirely implicit, like the story of a selfless act that saves the day, huzzah! Commencement speeches, TED talks,... See more
Kevin Simler • Here Be Sermons | Melting Asphalt
On shortcuts and longcuts
open.substack.com