Ece
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Ece
As I make hundreds of small choices throughout the day, I’m building a life—but at one and the same time, I’m closing off the possibility of countless others, forever. (The original Latin word for “decide,” decidere, means “to cut off,” as in slicing away alternatives; it’s a close cousin of words like “homicide” and “suicide.”)
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
... See moreConvenience is Destroying Culture
youtube.comProducts used to mold to us. As a dancer, my feet would be turned out, so the inside of my shoes would get worn out before the outside. Or my favorite pair of velvet pants have a mark at the backside from hours of sitting in front of the computer. Or a wood dinner table with marks of wine glasses signifying the history of long conversations on dinner parties. Signs of wear, tear, use.
In Poisonwood Bible, Nathan Price gives sermons where “Tata Jesus is bangala”, “bangala” meaning beloved. But due to his mispronunciation, it means “poisonwood” instead of “beloved”
Set around the story of missionaries trying to spread the word of Christianity in the newly liberated Congo, this misinterpretation ties into the Price family trying to force their beliefs and cultures onto the Congolese without understanding their cultural beliefs.
Also related to Adah collecting misprinted Bibles
As anything scales too effectively - from fashion to restaurants to music - the market opens for more non-scalable alternatives. Once Starbucks opens on every block, many of us crave the artisanal coffee shop. Once our favorite Italian restaurant becomes a chain of three, we grow tired of it. Why? First, so much of what we buy and do is tied up in ... See more
Scott Belsky • Joyspan, Emotional AI Bumpers, Persona Designers, & More Wild Concepts Bound to Become Commonplace Plus Where High-Tech Entertainment Brings Us
our choices are tied to identity and feeling unique and that cannot be established in scale
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, an... See more
A quote from The Bell Jar
The products we have now, beg for attention. A hammer is a hammer. It doesn’t ask to be used. But our products now demand our attention. They glow, they vibrate, they ping and make noises.
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel
― R.F. Kuang, Babel