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Design is The What. What should you be building? What’s the right opportunity to go after? What’s the right problem to solve? Asking the right question is half the answer. Design is not about the drapes or the drop shadows. Design is a messy, holistic, human-centric process for solving problems—not just stylistic problems, but problems of all manner and level of importance.
The most fundamental software infrastructure has become commoditized to the point where most of the innovation is now created at the interface with end users. In the consumer internet world in particular, the marginal cost of software is zero, and design is now the differentiator.
Favelas, spontaneous architecture
Rio is not known as the safest city. There are favelas 4 situated on the hillside. Yet there is a lot we can learn from them.
The architectural design of favelas is not planned. For decades, people helped each other with constructing the unit next door (on a whim it seems!), resulting in a complex and intricate patt... See more
Rio is not known as the safest city. There are favelas 4 situated on the hillside. Yet there is a lot we can learn from them.
The architectural design of favelas is not planned. For decades, people helped each other with constructing the unit next door (on a whim it seems!), resulting in a complex and intricate patt... See more
Coco Liu • The unique spatial patterns of Rio de Janeiro: on topography, spontaneous architecture, and fashion
I’m not sure how safe Rocinha would have been if I had wandered there on my own. But from the little that I’ve seen, they are rich in culture and hold strong community values.
Living in New York City, the city is also densely packed, yet we exist independently in our own spaces and spend a lifetime not knowing our immediate neighbors. While in Rocin... See more
Living in New York City, the city is also densely packed, yet we exist independently in our own spaces and spend a lifetime not knowing our immediate neighbors. While in Rocin... See more
The unique spatial patterns of Rio de Janeiro: on topography, spontaneous architecture, and fashion
manifesto/ /THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION
typewriterrevolution.com
The revolution will be typewritten.
Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference – the way in which we are like no other life.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org
Toni Morrison Nobel Prize in Literature 1993