Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
An implicit ending makes it difficult to fully give one’s heart to another, and yet, even in its finiteness, time cannot limit or end love.
Morgan Ome • Expiration Dates
We then used these objects to prompt discussions through questions of making – specifically asking participants ‘why do you think this was made?’ Making motivations is a lens being explored by the V&A East team as a curatorial framework and we wanted to build on this. Through these conversations, participants drew lines between their objects and... See more
Cara Gray • Designing for serendipity in the museum – surprise encounters with ...
was better to hear the unhappy details of such a life from the lips of the man who had led it rather than from someone else. Mothers often portrayed fathers in too flattering a light. Obituaries rarely told the whole story, especially when their subjects led classified lives.
Daniel Silva • The Black Widow
“Strategy can be considered a simple machine that consists of just four working parts: Ends, Ways, Means, and Assumptions”
For Gray, Ends were the goals, Ways the actions taken, Means were the resources deployed, and Assumptions were the necessary leaps, imagination, and guesses.
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
Strategy is about “shifting events and outcomes in one’s favour. Strategy in other words, is about creating new futures.”
“Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middleclass men and women who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will last forever or else are so frightened it won’t that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.”
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.comThe untethered – people without a strong connection to an ecology and community – lack a shared past and see little value in working towards a shared future.
“Becoming a person of place makes long-term investments desirable, because the future becomes more valuable to you. Those who have committed to a place, an ecosystem, a community, feel those as... See more
“Becoming a person of place makes long-term investments desirable, because the future becomes more valuable to you. Those who have committed to a place, an ecosystem, a community, feel those as... See more
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play . It seems to describe a life where it’s just fun to be reading, learning, writing, and collaborating on... See more