đŻ Some tenets of the âfriendship theory of everythingâ Ava highlighted really resonated:
You accept that in choosing who you spend time with you choose who you are.
Almost everyone whoâs unhappy is unhappy because they feel isolated. The best cure for isolation is a strong friend group. So much of happiness is having someone you can get a last-minute dinner with on a Monday night, or ask to water your plants while youâre gone for a week. The opposite of loneliness, as it were.
đȘ I got lucky enough to get a sneak preview on the draft of this post. Itay went through points truly close to my heart. It made me remember an old debate at home when I was a kid: if we should get an âall-in-oneâ TV-VHS combo or not -we decided we shouldnât. Designing for a single purpose.
đȘđș Andreas post is a kinda perfect follow up for my US observations above: Dear Europe, please wake up â eu/acc. I share his feeling below:
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk.
I am equally extremely bull-ish on Europe and equally extremely bear-ish.
đŽ like Taylor, I bike everyday, under any weather -kids included- so taking this as an example for his comfort â happiness made me smile: Any sacrifice for comfort is a waste.
âïž the title itself stopped me in my tracks: âgetting too good at the wrong thingâ. Nat is highlighting one of the big traps of modern lives. The opening sentence says it plainly:
I worry that some of the best writers of our generation are stuck making tweets and newsletters.
I worry of the same thing in entrepreneurship.
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.