A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm @jacobjay, a peripatetic designer/developer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently living between New Delhi and France, working on a Lua web platform and e-commerce. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
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“ Nature restores human nature, yet human nature underestimates the value of nature. This tendency precludes our ability to take advantage of nature’s restorative power while leading to nature’s destruction. ”
via ‘The Paradox of Nature and Human Nature?’ on 77Zero.; citing from “Underestimating Nearby Nature: Affective Forecasting Errors Obscure the Happy Path to Sustainability. The Paradox of Nature and Human Nature?” by Nisbet, E. K., & Zelenski.
(Source: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Entrepreneurial Generation - NYTimes.com
we’re all in showbiz now, walking on eggshells, relentlessly tending our customer base […] Call it Generation Sell. […] just [keep] doing what you [are] doing, at gradually higher price points
Attribution
It saddens me to see so many Tumblrites too readily posting awesome stuff—without making any effort to provide attribution for a piece.* When someone’s spent time creating the work you’re appreciating, surely expressing one’s gratitude if only by mentioning who they are and linking to their site is worthwhile… It may in fact be impossible, but like any journey, the very act of attempting it unleashes such plentiful discoveries along the way. :-D
Using Google Image Search to search for an image (right-click the image and copy URL, then click the camera icon on the search page to paste) is remarkably easy, and often effective.
* Withstanding memes and mashups, of course.
‘Back to the start’ by Chipotle, Feat. Willie Nelson (cover of ‘The Scientist’ by Coldplay); via Fast Company.
“ Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. ”
Kevin Kelly; via Ben Hammersley’s ‘My speech to the IAAC’: «anything that is dismissed on the grounds of the technology-not-being-good-enough-yet is going to happen». «It remains, in too many circles, a matter of pride not to be able to programme the video recorder. That’s pathetic.»
“ A lack of availability of inexpensive shop-rentals is one very easily read warning sign of overcooking. I wish Manhattan condo towers could be required to have street frontage consisting of capsule micro-shops. The affordable retail slots would guarantee the rich folks upstairs interesting things to buy, interesting services, interesting food and drink, and constant market-driven turnover of same, while keeping the streetscape vital and allowing the city to do so many of the things cities do best. ”
What’s the Amish community’s stance on cars?
«To the extent that you are mobile in an automated or motorized way with something like a car or motorcycle or fast moving tractor, you’ve increased your radius of contact with other human beings, but at the same time you dilute the quality of contact within that radius. So you can have more contact with a lot more people, but the quality of your relationships with those people, especially the people who are your immediate neighbors, is diluted. You don’t rely on them as much. It really drastically undermines the community.»
From the CNN article ‘Despite horses and buggies, Amish aren’t necessarily low-tech’; via No Tech Magazine.
‘Goodbye Habitat, hello knowledge hub’ in The Guardian
“As more of our famous stores close down, the high street can be reinvented as a place where we not only shop, but learn and do.”
“ With digital technology, as with every other information technology, the entity with greater information freedom wins. ”
A Long-Wave Theory on Today’s Digital Revolution, an interview with Elin Whitney-Smith.
“ «1 of only 12 pairs hand sewn by small sect of silent Japanese monks» Gen Y-ers desire an authentic relationship with the sellers of the products they buy [and] more than 50% often share […] interesting products with friends. ”
Inside the Mind of a Community Manager: «Like a piñata, after being beaten with sticks, must give out candy»—Heather Champ.
