America -> Italy

Yellow Hammer Coral, Euphyllia ancora

• Chicago digital team member shares learnings for next mayor Lightfoot
  Some reflections and lessons from a friend and collaborator during the early years of the Emanuel administration.
• Going Critical
  "There are ideas and cultural practices that can take root and spread in a city that simply can't spread out in the countryside. (Mathematically can't.)"
• Colorado smart communities: In Douglas County, near DIA they exist
  Colorado Smart Cities Alliance FTW.
• When time became regular and universal, it changed history
  "The end-times achieved a kind of temporal integration, like the backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything. They converted the experience of one-thing-after-another into a narrative plot. No longer was time passing away, empty and irredeemable, tick-tick-tick; it now had meaning and an ending, tick-tock."
• Man Accidentally Swallows AirPod, AirPod Keeps On Rocking
  This is only the begin of internal organ sound amplification. Where is the swallowable subwoofer?
• At the intersection of architecture and mental health: trauma-informed design
  I love this. The implications of architecture on mental health is under-explored.
• Workers Love AirPods Because Employers Stole Their Walls
  We make place with whatever tools we have.
• Black Ice: The Science of the Yamaha DX7
  "The DX7 has gone from world domination to toppled god to a charming sort of ornament and instant audio reference point in a producer’s palette."
• When Making Things Better Only Makes Them Worse
  "Hindsight bias"
• What Rahm Leaves Behind
  It's complicated.