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Steve Jobs once said something that’s close to my heart and shifted how I see the world:
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”
Everything around you was built by people no smarter than you.
Indra’s Net is a concept in Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. It’s the idea of everything that arose dependently, all things, hanging together and depending on one another, with no true ontological essence. Each of the jewels of Indra’s Net is said to contain the entirety, fractal, and there is no unfurling or separation of the parts from one another.... See more
Loving the World on Fire — Parapraxis
“this is certainly also a consequence of increasing trust in authority. as we experience less and less ourselves, but have everything played to us by the media, as we make less and less ourselves and also do not mend and keep, but tend much more to have everything thrust upon us as throw-away products, we lose trust in ourselves, we do not have
... See more“Anger is a way to communicate value.” — Myisha Cherry
Luis Barragán
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love the use of light, color, Casa Pedregal especially
The storytelling meme is evocative because on one hand it makes perfect sense that companies would want to be able to explain what they’re doing and make an offering in a compelling and entertaining way that resonates with people, which is storytelling. Yet it also speaks to a type of froth and rot in an overly fanciful society where we tell... See more
INTRODUCTION TO MUTANT TETRADS
We will leave Monsieur Le Corbusier’s style to him, a style suitable for factories and hospitals, and no doubt eventually for prisons. (Doesn’t he already build churches?) Some sort of psychological repression dominates this individual — whose face is as ugly as his conceptions of the world — such that he wants to squash people under ignoble masses... See more