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The more imaginative and curious you are, the more diverse your interests, and the higher your standards and commitment to perfection, the more difficult you will likely find it to switch from divergence mode into convergence mode. It’s painful to cut off options and choose one path over another. There is a kind of creative grief in watching an idea that you know is full of potential get axed from a script or a story. This is what makes creative work challenging.
Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte
To this day, architects tend to turn their noses up at Las Vegas, or simply dismiss it as irrelevant to serious design theory. “From an architecture perspective, its a city that’s known for neon, a city known for kitsch,” explains Stefan Al, a practicing architect and author of the book The Strip: Las Vegas and the architecture of the American Dream. “It’s exactly the opposite of what conventionally trained architects would like.”
Lessons From Las Vegas - 99% Invisible
99percentinvisible.org
But WMATA hasn’t historically made public hay over its data on how many boxes are broken, or how much money that problem costs. Is WMATA tackling that low-hanging fruit? Does it attract the kind of resources this campaign will dedicate to stopping fare evasion, or is that reserved for problems where individuals can be blamed?
Apples to Hand Grenades: Why Transit Fare Evasion Is an Untimely Distraction – Greater Greater Washington
Caitlin Rogger
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