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Being able to repair the problems on that bike with such little know-how or experience made me reflect on the simplicity and elegance of such a simple piece of engineering. Everything I needed to know on that bike I could inspect myself.
Consumerism and
One of the things I’ve discovered with buildings, particularly your so-called “high-road buildings” is they can become more amazing as time goes on. As that process proceeds, they are buildings that come to be loved. And once they’re loved, they’re safe, by and large. So the quality of mastery can be in the quality of the materials and crafting of a thing that invites that kind of caring, that will keep the thing going.
If you are trying to invent the new (or fund it), it helps to let go of existing boxes, instead of trying to jam innovative ideas into them. One of the reasons really disruptive startups often have a hard time raising money is because they often don’t fit an existing category.
Albert Wenger • Progress vs. Categories
Nostalgia is a curse in life and tech.
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As Miuccia Prada said:
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I’m attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
Talking with Kestin about stories from Scotland, creative inspiration, and making clothes for a living
Sprezzaopen.substack.com
quality products that last from Scotland
because we might be all status-seeking monkey anyway. and because “at the same time, taste games are supposed to be human nature.”