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Everyone is rightly focused on the music, but there is also medicine in reading the comments below. Everyone trying to put their emotions into words,

Architecture without philosophy would become engineering. Architecture without aesthetics is engineering.

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design is the embodiment of values. Design is the ultimate commitment to or compromise of one’s values. And this is how we go about the world. We make

When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti

We see something that works, and then we understand it “We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper

“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This h

“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the over

Anthea often uses metaphors to develop and convey new conceptualizations. This approach is in keeping with studies about the significant role of metap

Kelly's insight about wine applies perfectly to how we think about personal growth. Just as mindlessly drinking more wine doesn't make us better wine

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This is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curi

On paper, taste = discernment. In practice, taste = your sense of self, made visible.

For Kant, judgment is the mental faculty that connects particulars to universals—the capacity to say “this thing is an instance of that category.” But

A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produ

While in theory the notion of Quality might appear rather philosophical and idealistic, in practiceit could not be more pragmatic. One can think of Qu

Taste is eating software. Taste is the new weapon. Whether in design, branding, or user experience, taste now defines how a product is perceived and

But nature is not simply dynamic, either. Some things change quickly, but they are nested within other things that change less quickly. Leaves change

In the fall of 1970, the Black feminist poet, teacher, and activist June Jordan traveled to Italy as a Rome Prize recipient in the category of Environ

Excerpt from Prose Architectures introduction by Renee Gladman: "Drawing extended my being in time; it made things slow. It quieted language. It produ

Renee Gladman is an artist and writer preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, geographies, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of

Back then, technical prowess meant market dominance. Y Combinator, the spiritual center of Silicon Valley,1 crowned technical founders as the chosen o

Anthea often uses metaphors to develop and convey new conceptualizations. This approach is in keeping with studies about the significant role of metap

Fallow Periods as Fertile Ground In farming, land is left fallow to rest and regenerate, ensuring it remains fertile for future harvests. In a culture

One of the things I do around the edge of the portfolio is mess with the energy weight. Some of this is old habits — most of my option trading career

In investing, higher volatility usually equates to higher possible returns. In today’s world of online expression, we settle for lower expected value,

Briefly: a flow is any change over time, and a stock is the accumulation of flows. So your refrigerator's stock of food is fairly constant over time,

Financial systems are a continuous attempt to reshuffle assets towards the people who can manage them best or who are most tolerant of whatever their

PEOPLE IN SYSTEMS DO NOT DO WHAT THE SYSTEM SAYS THEY ARE DOING. University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal b

What the humans like is responsiveness - by Sasha Chapin What the humans like is responsiveness

In a model, agents are interchangeable. Consumer A and Consumer B have different preference curves, yes, but they respond to the same incentive struct

The model was helpful—but only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the q

In Paul Graham’s famous essay Cities and Ambition, there’s this idea that some cities are centers for some type of ambition, and when you come to one

The role of a successful place is to provide a catalytic context for missions.

after studying in basically every library / study spot in cambridge, I've found that the best study spots are still mom & pop cafes where there is a s

my social feeds seemed to finish their years-long transformation from a neighborhood populated with friends to a glossy condo development of brands.

Nostalgia is a cultural response to change.

I make my own stories and I'm very obsessed with not being nostalgic, because I think that 90 percent of the world is too nostalgic. They don't have t

I miss going to Blockbuster

when the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense.

A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why aren’t we all like that old bird

Rockefeller’s job wasn’t to drill wells, load trains, or move barrels. It was to make good decisions. And making decisions requires, more than anythin

Silence always gives in to let noise take its place. That is the constant dance that they share.

Given the large degree to which metaphors from digital technologies shape our understanding of memory, it’s surprising that our images of memory are s

love coffee shops more than drinking coffee love notebooks more than taking notes love sweatpants more than sweating the vibes are in the vessel

So yes, if your heart stops and you need CPR, you would really like it to be performed by someone who remembers the steps. But they don’t have to nail

When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic. We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of

read between the vibes

The Nobel laureate particle physicist Frank Wilczek once said that beauty exists as a dance between opposite forces. First, he said, beauty benefits f

Internal prediction market

I am also a fan of prediction markets, which can help identify the significance of events in real time, before the dust settles and there is consensus

The man we call an adventurer...is one who remains indifferent to the content, that is, to the human meaning of his action, who thinks he can assert h

Similarly, I wonder whether the creator economy, as it matures, will resemble less of its original promise (a way for people to do the things they lov