design for the long term.
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Our grandparents used to have staple/everyday shoes and jewelry that lasted them so long that they passed on to kids and grandkids as heirlooms and I have “high quality” shoes and earrings falling apart after like 1 year of wear cause I “wore it too much”????
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This is the first written instruction manual that I know of.
The new section is titled "Great Manuals in History." Three of them were created deliberately to break through class barriers.
One, from 1320, is the first martial arts manual (thanks to Kyle Wiens @kwiens for the tip):
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Photographer Todd McLellan disassembles things: "Things Come Apart" @smithsonian @Todd_McLellan
(Plus- the typewriter)
Take it apart: roughlydaily.com/2022/08/26/…
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I wonder if the inventor of paper straws ever considered that they would be in prolonged contact with liquid.
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Cory @doctorow does an excellent job summarizing our recent report, "Stranded" which shows how the repair system we have for wheelchair users is another example of repair restrictions run amok -- and why those users want #RightToRepair
eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/wh…
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The @nytimes' meditation on how we make sense of time in the new year features our Executive Director @zander discussing how the Clock of the Long Now serves "to help humans think about time well beyond our own lives." nytimes.com/2021/12/31/us/ne…
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Design that lasts is the best design
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"We wouldn't have had an Apple had I not grown up in a very open technology world"
Apple founder Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement bbc.in/3dVtX12
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"No, you don't have thousands of years to live. Urgency is on you. While you live, while you can, become good."
- Marcus Aurelius
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Yes, it’s finally happening! Planning a launch kind of thing in early September, where I can tell you all about it. More about that later.
You can now pre-order Jonathan Chapman's upcoming book "Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts" from MIT Press.The book, which serves as an argument for a design philosophy of "better, not more," comes out in August 2021. buff.ly/3c2FsSp
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A new paper in The Anthropocene Review explores some of the longest-lived organizations in the world across a variety of sectors, and proposes 12 design principles for creating "deep-time organizations" to address long-term challenges. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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EXCLUSIVE: One of Amazon’s smallest and most popular products has a surprisingly large footprint.
@ozm's @SarahNEmerson uncovered the hidden life cycle of an AmazonBasics battery. read.medium.com/GzYlmoA
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This syllabus for a college course on long-term thinking has a plethora of intriguing links to books, videos, blogs, games, and whatnots that encourage and enable becoming an astute citizen of the long now.
New post: after 13 years as a fellow with @longnow and over a decade of teaching futures, I'm currently running a class at @cmudesign on long-term thinking. Here's the syllabus.
futuryst.blogspot.com/2019/1… #longtermthinking #longshorts
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Part of good design is that it should either be made to last and/or be easy to repair - Most tech products are neither.
inthesetimes.com/article/219…
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Ice Age Babies from Krems-Wachtberg site - buried with jewellery, red ochre, blanket, under a mammoth shoulder blade donsmaps.com/mammothsite.htm…
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”On a global scale, our economic system is predicated on a disregard for longevity, because it’s more profitable for companies to make products that die than it is to make products that last.” This article is brilliant. tx @carolineha_ cc @iamjchapman @kwiens – at Los Angeles, CA
Must-read critique of Apple’s ‘strategy of tragedy’ in AirPods vice.com/en_us/article/neaz3… cc @billmcdonough
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One of the most encouraging studies I've seen in a long time! @DanielleFLawson and colleagues found that kids can change their parent's minds about climate - with daughters having the strongest influence on conservative fathers. Yea! scientificamerican.com/artic…
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fantastic piece on "slow" Twitch -- the creative channels and smaller communities of knitters, sewers, scientists, makeup artists etc. -- who connect with each other online through sometimes long, slow streams
gizmodo.com/the-gentle-side-…
