Random bank holiday thoughts

I’m spending a first weekend of downtime in a while walking around London, cooking with Matt and letting just random realisations bubble out. A few:

. Why does everyone in design and technology have architecture envy? Everyone talks about urban spaces, psychogeography, gps, architecture… most of these subjects it seems have been covered by scores of people before. There’s loads to read about the subject. Is it because it’s such an established field, with loads of thinkers and theories around it, or is since we got GPS and Google Earth appeared. And why only architecture? Why not product design? Is it because it’s seen as less accessible therefore more enviable.

. I’ve been reading a lot of Kundera in the past few months simply because it gives me a great opportunity to read more French (my mother tongue) and reading L’immortalité has been surprising. It’s simply the best example of a form of writing that hints of how the internet way of understanding information turned out to be. It is a meta book. A book about a book and writing a book, a story about another story with a story to compare it to.

. This has also made me think that I need to go back to the classics and start hacking away at that long list I always said I’d read one day. A brief history of time will be my first one. If it’s true that we are a forgetful species and that everything has already been thought and done maybe some answers to problems lurking in the future lie in what was written in the past.

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