Comments on: More lingo http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7144 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Matthew Battles http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7144/comment-page-1#comment-34133 Matthew Battles Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:09:28 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7144#comment-34133 also this rather old news: the firm Bruce Mau Design (who worked with Rem Koolhaas on the Seattle Public Library) in 1998 came up with what they call an <a>Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.</a> Lots of Oblique-Strategy-level stuff in it, but this one caught my fancy: 2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth. also this rather old news: the firm Bruce Mau Design (who worked with Rem Koolhaas on the Seattle Public Library) in 1998 came up with what they call an Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. Lots of Oblique-Strategy-level stuff in it, but this one caught my fancy:

2. Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.

]]> By: Matthew Battles http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7144/comment-page-1#comment-34090 Matthew Battles Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:32:04 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7144#comment-34090 Brian Eno's point about the myth of the lone genius being set aside in favor of the idea digital-era makers and storytellers working in the folk-artist mode—that's very useful. Brian Eno’s point about the myth of the lone genius being set aside in favor of the idea digital-era makers and storytellers working in the folk-artist mode—that’s very useful.

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