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How good we can transform and re-use buildings and areas that no longer fit our needs is a good criteria for future cities. Cities have been in constant evolution since Uruk became a city over five thousand years ago. There are walls in Lebanon that were built using Roman marble columns.
Human capital is the motor of the economy.
I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.
Ezra Klein • Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
Erin Glasstwitter.comHaving a narrow idea of what a successful career look like constrains our curiosity and limits our ambition to pursue the work we actually want to do.
“Los discípulos de Rousseau, que hablan tanto acerca de la naturaleza y la feliz condición del hombre en el estado natural, no se percataron que los medios de subsistencia son escasos y de que el estado natural del hombre es la pobreza extrema y la inseguridad. —Mientras los industriales mejoraban los métodos de producción para proveer un mejoramie
... See moreThe famous Anton Ego speech in Ratatouille:
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position of those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement.
We thrive on negative criticism.
Which is fun to write and to read.
But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the ave
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