Many great interviews last week đ
đȘŽ between Brian -from Frontier- and David and Sarah from Terremoto, the Los Angelesâ and San Franciscoâbased landscape design firm. âA garden or landscape is a process, not a product.â
đ§đŠ the title says it all and Mariana is delivering an extremely important read. Itâs not for parents only. Why children need risk, fear, and excitement in play.
What kids are dying from today are mainly car crashes and suicides, not playing outside unsupervised with friends. Parents are worrying about the wrong causes of injuries and harm. In fact, the very strategies that parents use to try to keep their children safe â driving them around, maximizing supervision, and minimizing freedom â are unintentionally increasing the likelihood of injuries and even death.
The solutions are both simple and hard. We know what children need to thrive. The three key ingredients necessary for thriving play environments are Time, Space, and Freedom.
đ There some extremely meaningful pieces of wisdom in this 40 life lessons I know at 40 by Mark Manson. #40: ITâS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE is quite powerful:
A friend of mine once told me a story about his grandmother. He said that when her husband died, she was 62 and for the first time in her life, she began to take piano lessons.
For weeks, she practiced all day, every day.
At first, the family thought it was just a phase, a way for her to process her grief. But months went by and she continued to play every day.
People started to wonder if she was crazy or something was wrong with her. They told her to give it up, face reality. But she kept going.
By the time she was in her 90s, sheâd been playing piano every day for over 30 years, longer than most professional musicians have been alive. She had mastered all of the classicsâMozart, Beethoven, Bach, Vivaldi.
Everyone who heard her play swore that she must have been a concert pianist in her youth. No one believed her when she said that she took her first lesson in her 60s.
I love this story because it shows that even at an impractical old age, you still have more time left to learn something than most professionals at that thing have even been alive.
đŒ HermÄs story is unique and Acquired did an awesome job to encapsulate it. Stewarded by one French family over six generations, HermĂšs sells the absolute pinnacle of the French luxury dream.
My own relationship with HermĂšs started very early since my momâs best friend when I was young [from my 5 to 12 year old] was working in the atelier near Lyon, France where they were making silk scarves.
đ I almost cried reading this manifesto:Â the car will be unbundled. And - obviously - I canât agree more with the conclusion.
This manifesto is a call to use our superpower to make moving better.
Better by getting there happier, healthier and more in harmony.
In harmony with our environment and with each other.
đ Iâve followed Bobby for my time in LA more than a decade ago now. So reading him talking about the power of âenoughâ made me truly, genuinely, happy. Because yes, this is something we hope to spread more with Objet too.
â Because we might all be status-seeking monkey anyway [as suggested by Eugene in Status as a Service] and because âat the same time, taste games are supposed to be human nature.â This post is definitely a must-read: Taste Games.
âïž Found out this wonderful manifesto lately:Â a call for friction in digital culture.
With movement comes friction. The more we move and act, the more friction we encounter. The more friction there is, the more we engage and care. Friction drives our engagement. Friction, in this context, is neither synonymous with anger or conflict, nor is it malfunctioning technology. Friction is an essential ingredient that makes up our humanness and sparks human connection. Friction is thus a lively, intrinsic experience.
đđ That one feels very special to me. Alongside my partners in crime Max and Mathilde we published âLE NEW CONSUMERâ manifesto. With Objet we are working on a joyful system that will enhance and reward new consumersâ behaviours and actions, online and offline. This mission is thrilling. And huge. We wonât do this alone.
Itâd mean the world to me if youâre signing this manifesto [if it resonates of course]. CO-SIGN.
đ§đŠ It feels like Iâve been on a âkids spreeâ lately. Maybe this is the âI want to be a better Dadâ thought kicking in. It started with Henrikâs great recommendation â following my own âOur relationship to childrenâ â Derek Sivers asking: Who is parenting really for?
Because I realized that the parenting things I do for him are also for myself. And thatâs an idea worth sharing.
PG detail some of the lies we [adults] tell kids. He starts with âProtectionâ:
If you ask adults why they lie to kids, the most common reason they give is to protect them. And kids do need protecting. The environment you want to create for a newborn child will be quite unlike the streets of a big city.
That theme fits perfectly with Etienneâs take on ârisky playâ. I canât agree more with him when he writes:
society has moved towards an overabundance of caution around kids
I do have many stories to tell here. I also think there is an asymmetry of caution between the physical and online world.
I decided lately to bookmark the best pieces of content I was coming across. You can find everything in this collection on Sublime.
đ¶ Yancey talks about Pitchfork, music criticism, and culture after prestige in The prestige recession.
Instead, art and culture have been safely neutralized as interchangeable commercial objects just like everything else. [âŠ]
At its best, cultural criticism is love and art that exists to give love to other expressions of art. Itâs beautiful in its indulgence. A positive feedback loop that gives everybody exactly what they desire. Gods, scribes, muses, an audience, a culmination. This is what we want out of art. Something that feels grand, meaningful, connected to the ages. That doesnât happen on its own. It needs context, dedicated space, deeper knowledge, appreciation.
I come across a lot of content during the week. I detailed some of my habits in how I read. I decided lately to bookmark the best pieces. So if you're curious or want to dig more, you can everything in this collection on Sublime.
âïžÂ Mat gives some backstory about her, Max and I and how our relationship with obects got impacted by our lifestyle during the past 15 years: 18 moves across 4 continents. Which also lead to Objet at the end.