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“Limit everything to the essential but do not remove the poetry.”

— Dieter Rams, quoted in Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

There is nothing interesting about a grid of totally random-seeming product shots on white backgrounds. There is no context, no allure, no storytelling, no social cues, no desire, no thrill, no fun.

Psychedelics should NOT be available over-the-counter

In the future, purchasing an NFT will entitle the owner to certain rights related to its content: the right to own and keep; the right to sell, license, and lend; as well as the right to royalties, the right to confer reuse (i.e. “movie rights”), and so on. That’s why taking a photograph of the Mona Lisa is not the same as actually owning Leonardo... See more

And so too we’ve invented a history of “the factory model of education” in order to justify an “upgrade” – to new software and hardware that will do much of the same thing schools have done for generations now, just (supposedly) more efficiently, with control moved out of the hands of labor (teachers) and into the hands of a new class of engineers,... See more