Why Are Architects More Famous Than Builders?
Well. at least for real-world construction. As we build out the internet, I feel it is the other way round. Why is that? I wrote this just yesterday …
Frank Lloyd Wright, Julia Morgan, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Gaudi, Le Corbusier … are legion in the world of architecture … yet few people know the names of the people or companies that built the buildings they designed.
Today I discovered this gentle and informative Twitter account that highlights the names of building designers - not building builders.
1999: Burj Al Arab in Dubai, designed by Tom Wright of WKK Architects
— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) October 31, 2022
99/100 pic.twitter.com/YbaTimr5rX
Is it odd that In technology, the ‘builders’ have become the industry names and we know so relatively few designers?
Lachlan gets fired the day Rupert dies.
We will see. As old as he is he might still be around for ten more years.
“The role of Fox News has become so controversial inside the family that control of the trust is no longer just about profit and loss at the Murdoch properties."
“Ravages of age,” really? That phrase has got to go.
“Language matters. Journalists need to stop relying on offensive, misleading phrases like ‘ravages of age’ and we need to keep calling them out until they do.”
💬 Ashton Applewhite
31 Apps ‘allowed’ to ‘run in the background’?
Not any more … ZERO … if something happens I can always switch on again.
🎶🎵🎼 DH Peligro, drummer for the Dead Kennedys, dies aged 63.
Reporting not so much that he died so relatively young … more that a member of the Dead Kennedys was in his early 60s. #WhereDoesTimeGo ?
Now he says …
”But a social media shouting match is just not our way. It is not the way my mum raised me, and it’s not the way of our organisation.”
Spot On.
“Fired for ‘cause’” ….. 🍿🍿🍿
Phew … one more authoritarian regime bites the dust. Are you watching America? It can be done … even when the odds are seemingly stacked against you.
Power Photos is really rather good.
I might have said that before.
Thought I’d say it again.
Just For One Day
Already back out to the ‘nines’ …
This makes me feel better about some Man U performances this season.
Looking for something else and this came up …
Robert Scoble Should Pay Attention To Dave Winer - January 2016.
Is the situation any better 7 years later?
Adding Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender 📚 to my reading list. An unofficial biography lauded by the Apple leadership … comp to the Isaacson story is needed.
Based on PMQT
Kier 1
Rishi 0
I base the score on whether the PM actually answered any question.
“Chuck Schumer’s been in Congress so long that medically he’s considered a pre-existing condition.”
💬 Peggy Noonan
Semafor is the next media startup.
Peter Kafka talked with Ben Smith
@dave wrote
" I was having a Twitter conversation with Ben Smith, editor in chief of Semafor."
Hope he convinced him to use RSS.
The newsletters are free - maybe that’s the way to go?
“If you’re producing an event, you want the best person you can get. And then inevitably, you have to settle for the best person you can get.”
💬 William Gallagher
Anyone in the knowledge management space have any insights into gleanly?
Feedland now added to my web site navigation - which in turn takes you to Follow Along (People (mainly) that I am following broken down into two main groups.)
Image on the Feedland site courtesy of Hugging Face.
