Derek Brimley
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Derek Brimley
Growing a Hornbeam Hedge
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You know when something is well made when you feel like you are in good hands.
Geoffrey Litt: Avoid the nightmare bicycle. Good designs expose systematic structure; they lean on their users’ ability to understand this structure and apply it to new situations. We were born for this.
Bad designs paper over the structure with superficial labels that hide the underlying system, inhibiting their users’ ability to actually build a
... See moreWhat holds true for the soil—that you must give it more than you take away—also holds true for nations, institutions, marriage, friendship, education, in short for human culture as a whole, which comes into being and maintains itself in time only as long as its cultivators overgive of themselves.
Robert Pogue Harrison • Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
“Children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between it and their own selves.” - Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn
Tom Critchlow • LF:13 Family Futures
Ways to enjoy things more:
Pay attention to stuff in the background
Feel it in your body
Make it into a loose metaphor, like synesthesia
Get lost in small details
Memorize it
Build context
Find a flaw
Pretend you are buying it
Music may be the most beautiful experiment conducted in the laboratory of time.
