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a crowd of one

a crowd of one

Just finished reading John Henry Clippinger’s book “A Crowd of One.”
Identities are created by negatives… by what they are not: this identity is not shiny, white…

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day three

day three

“… is an art not a science, and we would like to make it a science”
but why?
is meaning the same as comfort?
Perhaps a bit…

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day two

day two

where are your allegiances:
to intelligence, or, to homo sapiens?
There appears to be an oncoming force: the explosion of intelligence. This will emerge due to the diffusion…

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21c Museum Hotel

21c Museum Hotel

IF 20th century business models give way under the strains of, excuse my bluntness “Ponzi-scheme” finances, doubling up is one possible new model. It might not always succeed, but it…

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open to suggestions

open to suggestions

 
After a meeting with Tracy Mathieu and Brian Kronewitter at Mortenson Construction today, I was riding the motorcycle back to Chicago and enjoying the distictly non-urban meandering roads through forested…

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forgetfulness

forgetfulness

I lost my bicycle. No it wasn’t stolen, I just forgot where I locked it up. Within the last three days. I rode it on Wednesday, not…

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peripatetic

peripatetic

This, peripatetic muse,
has so much to do with how we focus in our work… Maggie Jackson recently commented how fleeting ideas are.  And in our world they…

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bad times 1970 Philip Guston

bad times 1970 Philip Guston

Architects are generalists.  Buildings get built by specialists: contractors, tradesmen and paid for by financial specialists.  Yet buildings are built for owners, an individual or entity who has…

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