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Probably not what you were hoping for, but my first reaction upon reading this was, "Man, 'vectorialist' is a wild-sounding word."

Ishinomaki Laboratory - the global brand born out of the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami ethos-magazine.com/ishinomaki 石巻工房 Ishinomaki Laboratory

Boda bodas have come to play every imaginable role in Ugandan society: emergency services, security guards, getaway drivers, gov't spies, school buses... they represent the entrepreneurial, rule-breaking spirit of Uganda & everything one can do with it africanarguments.org/2023/08/uganda…

in the next few years, the last desperate search for shreds of authentic local culture will convulse the globe as the internet consumes every interesting quirk and scales it up to the size of TikTok

Often the best way to innovate is by removing something; after all Han Solo is just a cowboy without a hat, as Simon Stålenhag 🐀 shows This paper finds most people do not consider subtractive strategies, a reason why firms add meetings & requirements over time & don’t remove them!

Simulated GPT-3.5 “people” replicate 38% of psych studies, but fail when they insist there is one “correct” answer Also: “our sample of self-reported GPT liberals were still closer to the human conservative sample than it was to the human liberal sample.” arxiv.org/pdf/2302.07267…

In contrast to conventional travel methods popular among Chinese travelers, the “citywalk” has as its goal the immersion into a local culture and lifestyle rather than hitting certain “must-see” spots. ow.ly/RUjN50PSJWy

Research shows that 🕷 webs & 🐈 whiskers act as extensions of the creature’s nervous systems. Tools do the same for humans One of the most profound examples is that we can tell where an impact on a rod we are holding is, at an unconscious level, just from its modes of vibration

Behold this handful of golden threads that Tom plucks from the tapestries of his and others’ practices to demonstrate the importance of how you tell others (and yourself!) the story of why you do what you do. My favorite bit: the simple, immense power of “Learning Questions.”

Sort of fascinated with this, particularly if merged somehow with a more humane map of one's "network" (like Clay) to help guide you towards people who know who might have made a similar jump in life, to (re)connect with them around your own journey.

A little magic box on a Shenzhen c-store counter gives a glimpse into a more widespread world of paying with a gesture. What do we gain and lose in such a world, as we (literally) wave farewell to cash, credit cards, and the interactions they enable? squareinchanthro.com/2024/03/17/cas…

I’m not sure the origin story is true (is it, anyone?)—although Annalie Riches knows what she’s talking about!—but the wider point remains: we have numerous hangovers from another time shaping the UK’s planning and building culture, and they all need reimagining and revising

I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below walzr.com/bop-spotter

While many Chinese cities have demolished their urban villages, many of Shenzhen’s villages have become quite wealthy, undertaking their own property development and renovating homes, maintaining their “right to the city” sinocities.substack.com/p/revitalizing…

China is the world’s first electrostate cleantechnica.com/2025/05/26/chi…

Relational state capacity is a collective capacity to achieve welfare outcomes that emerges from the everyday interactions between citizens and agents of the State relationalstatecapacity.com

“Everybody wants the pill for fixing climate change. Oysters are probably as close as you are going to get.” —Dan Martino to Aryn Baker noemamag.com/a-climate-solu…

In Japan right now, and I have this elaborate fantasy in my head where some dude closes down his 8th-generation family tea house business because “you can just do things” and then suffers the shame and judgement of the entire town forever and ever until his death.

"When it comes to utility and efficiency, we are misanthropists. We actually kind of hate other humans." - Chris Paik, partner Pace Capital "When you're in an Uber and (the driver) starts talking to you, you wish you were in a Waymo." "We are actually very happy with humans being