{"id":3372,"date":"2025-12-15T18:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:49:01","slug":"sunday-scraps-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/sunday-scraps-105\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #105"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qD_Z3td4nRU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week was a bit emosh, but hey, the show must go on.<\/p>\n<p>I am not reassured by HSBC closing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d7a52989-f9da-4947-8c24-47ac1a519254\">160 year old management training programme<\/a> \/ I was really pleased to find out a bit more about <a href=\"https:\/\/pariscinemablog.wordpress.com\/2024\/11\/01\/the-paris-cinema-project-115\/\">Adrienne G\u00f3rska<\/a> who helped Eileen Gray understand architecture \/ to think people used to name their businesses after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lloyd%27s_Coffee_House\">local coffee house<\/a> \/ the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrail.co.uk\/en_GB\/trails\/england-coast-path\/trail-information\/\">King Charles III Coastal path<\/a> looks interesting for next year perhaps \/ friends told me about the German &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marriage_loan\">marriage loans<\/a>&#8216; \/ i watched a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gzOwpEupP5w?si=HEAGExMhC8lZ2obj\">Fei-Fei Li lecture<\/a> and I continue to be impressed by technologists&#8217; blinkered focus on designing <a href=\"https:\/\/behavior.stanford.edu\/index.html\">totally the wrong things for homes<\/a> \/ I picked up a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/accattone.be\/issue8\/\">Accattone<\/a> and I&#8217;m loving it \/ lots of people have left big tech and starting new abstract sounding companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archetypeai.io\/\">Archetype<\/a> \/ I prefer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User_error\">user error<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wetware_(brain)\">wetware<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/meatspace\">meatspace<\/a> personally \/ do we know what happened to Ben Russell (author of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technoccult.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/library\/headmap-manifesto.pdf\">Headmap manifesto<\/a>) \/ I&#8217;m glad someone has written about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0962629815000219\">biopolitics<\/a> of the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam \/ this <a href=\"https:\/\/thepointmag.com\/examined-life\/the-limits-of-forgiveness\/\">piece<\/a> about forgiveness is interesting but I&#8217;m still not sure I believe in it.<\/p>\n<p>In social news, I know I said I&#8217;d join an online dating app but I lasted three miserable days and it&#8217;s one of those things I&#8217;ve decided to give up on. More Sinead, less Bridget Jones from now on.<\/p>\n<p>In job seeking news, I got my 10th rejection last week. Am taking myself to Nice for betwixmas and will rethink my strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was a bit emosh, but hey, the show must go on. I am not reassured by HSBC closing a 160 year old management training programme \/ I was really pleased to find out a bit more about Adrienne G\u00f3rska who helped Eileen Gray understand architecture \/ to think people used to name their&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/sunday-scraps-105\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #105<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-So","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}