My Spotify Discover Weekly mix was excellent this week. I take this as a good omen.
A friend is helping make and install public benches where they are needed and I so wish London would get over its propensity for hostile architecture / I didn’t know radon in buildings was a cause of lung cancer but my flat is in a low risk zone thank the gods / a call for papers about design in an age of uncertainty / i wonder if the next Homeworld will come out of the Warm Homes Plan / Phin is organising another turncoats / I didn’t know Rachel Cooper had passed away recently / I’m watching lectures about AI and trying to pin down who came up with new expressions like universal assistants and jagged intelligence / imitating young people and making this top this week although I think I ended up with a fabric that makes me look like a circus clown / an exit interview with Michael Beirut / I should get into Edna O’Brien / the Nan Goldin is very good but go midweek (this photo still gets to me as I have been that girl) / an instagram flutter (is that a thing?) pointed me to these two excellent essays about tech and culture.
Added to my commonplace book:
Or, more to the point, how can we know that our memories of happiness are true? I spend an inordinate portion of my professional life creeping around in my own psyche, untangling knots of nostalgia and pleasure and, god, so many emotions, not least self-love and self-loathing, all of them unavoidable colorants of any bite I take. (Helen Rosner in The New Yorker Food Scene Newsletter)
In job seeking news, this role at Made Tech looks nice but I can’t tell how junior it is and the Clore Fellowship call is open.
In social news, bumped into someone I haven’t seen in years just out on the street. That happens maybe two to three times a year and is always so magical. More of this please.
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