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The first step to changing the world is finding the right problem to solve.

Wish there was a Caro-esque historical biography on Robert McNamara.

Just learned Howard Hughes offered my grandfather a job and he didn’t take it. 🤦‍♂️

Politicians pitching “fixing daylight savings time” is a red flag for me. Don’t talk to me about this bullsh*t until Americans can afford a home.

A wise man once told me, “make room for a friend.”

Agreed. Some great points here. I was thinking about how to phrase it today. “Bad government made good government look bad.” Tangible results indeed matter and Americans saw a guy successfully building reusable rockets and were like, “you drive.”

if you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery.

The Japanese Bridge in Hoi An, Vietnam

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what is porn? In the most basic of senses, porn is an image (moving or still) whose contents are subservient to their effects on the viewer.

Glad someone pointed out that the plot development in The Brutalist was ham-fisted and lazy. Maybe because it was so needlessly long. Not sure it was like porn, tho haha. This movie did not a nut bust.

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I drove up to Pleasantville, NY to look at the FLW Usonian houses. Interested in the idea of economical “high design”. (First pic mine, rest are web)

Alright, let’s hear it. What was the best building you saw in 2024?

Got my boss for Secret Santa. Got him a shirt that said, “Daddy’s Little Meatball”. Putting me on a PIP now.

City Operations Commissioner Resigns in Latest Adams Departure Dawn Pinnock announces she’s leaving the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, an agency with vast power over city real estate and hiring.

The head of the agency that manages the city’s massive purchasing and real estate holdings announced her resignation to staff Tuesday — yet another top official in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration to leave before he finishes his first term at City Hall.

Do I look like Forest Gump or am I just sitting on a park bench with something on my lap?

“Revivalism produces strange bedfellows. Or maybe it’s better to say, with apologies to Marx, that utopian architecture, as distinct from other varieties, happens twice: the first time as critique, second as control.”

@hawthorne.bsky.social writes in Issue #38/39.

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Not convinced by this photo of the proprietor of our local luncheonette, Johny, reading the issue featuring his luncheonette on its cover?

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Word for 2024: Frugillionaire

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Between technological, social, economic and environmental shifts, the industry is at a crossroads. My hope is that we can build a sustainable and equitable future together and promote tools that serve that common goal.

cosmetics (UX/UI) on old tech or make marginal efficiency gains without addressing the fundamental pitfalls veterans in the field have simply learned how to navigate around.

That being said, I think this time is different.

generation has had with “current industry standard tools” that lock us into the same antiquated workflows that have enabled an international housing crisis and ignored a climate crisis. I’ve also seen many startups come and go as technology hype will often just put new

Talking the future of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) at the AIA Center for Architecture AEC Tech symposium today.

As someone who started young in the industry, over the years I’ve become all-too-familiar with the resigned disappointment my

Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him | Zoe Williams The X owner has no time for a democratic experiment dedicated to knowledge. He would rather yell puerile ‘jokes’ into the ether, writes Zoe Williams

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Finally watching Buffalo ‘66. Holy crap Anjelica Huston.

To watch:

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