“The Trump Organization does not seem to be guided by any feeling for what it wants its buildings to look like, and obviously not (given the propensity of its projects to land in the red) by simple economic horse sense. Not only is there no there there, but the more theres they build, the less there there is.”
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Can’t Stop Paying Attention To Your Phone? There’s A Reason For That – It’s Called “Design”
You might just think it’s your failure of attention. But that itch to glance at our phone is a natural reaction to apps and websites engineered to get us scrolling as frequently as possible. The attention economy, which showers profits on companies that seize our focus, has kicked off what Tristan Harris calls a “race to the bottom of the brain stem.”
Furtwangler And Mengelberg, Dudamel And Gergiev?
These four conductors all face(d) political decisions in their relationship to political power. Great musicians all. But their survival strategies differ(ed). Norman Lebrecht suggests some parallels.