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I live in a country, a pretty small country in fact, that has a really bad flag. I mean this not in terms of what it means or stands for and all that, but in terms of design. I’m talking about the flag of Slovenia, which not unlike the
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Why do we check back hoping against hope, wishing against any shred of life relevance that someone has replied to what was obviously the most damn clever and important thing any human could have ever said today? We keep on checking so that we matter, and that someone cares. If
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I’ve seen it spread, from the rapidly evolving boroughs of London to the desolate inner ring suburbs of Cleveland to the ancient streets of Istanbul. The polished concrete floors, the reclaimed wood and the fancy Australian-ish origin coffee drinks. I’ve become a victim of these in particular as
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So the thing I couldn’t decide about this gem of an idea was would the road to riches be paid in gold or cold hard cash. Lambo or stretch Hummer? Who can decide these things, especially when there is a Bilzerian horde of oiled bikini-clad women feeding you grapes
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This is about 300 internet years too late, but it was lying around, so you know, reasons. There is some inherent value in NFTs, as receipts or tickets for instance that one day people will figure out a way that a lot of people want to use. Until then we’
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There was a running joke a long time ago in a certain august, British, art institution I may have attended at some point about a currency nobody outside of the design industry knew about. This was a particularly innovative currency, way ahead of its time and way before Bitcoin or
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The massive problem in the world that I could totally solve In the new and very fine tradition of Killing Darlings, that is killing ideas that linger and languish in text files and notebooks from here to eternity, it’s only fitting I put to rest one of the first
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Welcome to the second instalment of Killing Darlings. The name, well, that should be abundantly clear. It’s from the quote misattributed to the indefatigable Mark Twain who was alleged to have said that writers need to, “Kill their darlings,” that is, their favourite characters in their stories, so that
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This is the first in what I think just might be a series of me writing about ideas I had or should not have had in order to let them go. It’s called Killing Darlings. So far. To answer your first question, no, I couldn’t come up with