Ged Carroll | renaissance chambara
brand planning ^ culture ^ design ^ east asia ^ ephemera ^ media ^ tech
Reading Time: 1 minute China Set Traps To Capture Dangerous NSA Cyberattack Weapons: New Report – the implications of China trapping its attacks and repurposing its expensive code has seriously difficult optics The 10,000-hour rule has been disproven. Now what? — Quartz – what another Malcolm Gladwell ‘truth’ disproved? I am shocked, shocked I say! China’s Sinopec launches coffee … Read moreICYMI | 万一你错过了| 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우에 대비해서
Reading Time: 2 minutes WSJ City | Young Chinese Spending Creates Worrying Debt – looks like a credit bubble waiting to happen A European Perspective on Boeing’s 737 MAX Debacle: An “Existential Crisis” for a National Champion | naked capitalism – Boeing’s Crashes Expose Systemic Failings – fascinating Spiegel article of which this pulls out the highlights BangBros Acquires, … Read moreICYMI | 万一你错过了| 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우에 대비해서
Reading Time: 1 minute I was watching the Dieter Rams documentary – Rams: Principles of Good Design by film maker Gary Hustwit and a small section jumped out at me. Digitisation diminishes our experience of things. Pictures appear and disappear one after the other without leaving a trace up here (pointing to his head). This goes insanely fast. And … Read moreDieter Rams
Reading Time: 1 minute Work & Co.’s clean looking website for Celine. Céline.com from Work and Co on Vimeo. I have deliberately ignored a lot of the brands trying to cling on to the proverbial vapour trail of the Apollo space programme; but this video caught my eye because it showed the amazing engineering chops of Sony. Just look … Read moreFive for Friday | 五日（星期五) | 금요일에 다섯 가지
Reading Time: 4 minutes My old MacBook Pro, which had seen me through a lot of work had been starting to show its age, so I changed it out for a new model. The process has been challenging at times so I thought that I would write about the good, the bad and the weird parts of this experience. … Read moreNew MacBook Pro – some thoughts