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More beauty and craft,

less factory line

More weird and rebellious,

less safe and derivative

More really hard inspired work,

less status games

More authentic expression of self,

less patagonia vest

We've always had a tension between enterprise design practices and a "small pieces, loosely joined" way of making software, to use David Weinberger's felicitous phrase. The advantages to the latter are in part described in Worse is Better and The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Situated software is in the small pieces category, with the following... See more

And worst of all, we’ve lost sight of the most salient part about computers: their malleability. We’ve acquiesced the creation of our virtual worlds, where we now spend most of our time, to the select few who can spend the millions to hire enough software engineers. So many of the photons that hit our eyes come from purely fungible pixels, yet for... See more

we call this idea bigamy

that you can take multiple desirable

elements that might not fit together or

even seem mutually exclusive like the

garden home in the high-rise and merge

them together into a new genre

you don't have to remain faithful to a

single idea you can literally marry

multiple ideas into promiscuous hybrids

the beauty is that architecture... See more

As Mr. Petrini has said, “The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.” He is talking most forcibly about food, but this focus on a different, slower way reverberates into all facets of our lives.