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What does designing for life mean in practice? Who is doing it? How we can help? I write, talk, and advise. We also host offsite/retreats here in France .

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The same thing, mapped: every road around Prague on top, every road around Toronto below. The Old World wanders along centuries-old paths, the New World runs in a surveyed grid.

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Why doesn't Chinese AI produce such uniformly apocalyptic discourse? Well. As of 2025, according to the Stanford 2026 AI Index Report, the US invested $258bn vs $12.4bn in China — 23:1 ratio. Same report finds a 2.7% gap between the performance of the top model in the US vs China

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Where could one learn about design as "an act of poetic resistance"? At the Useless School, of course. 14-17 September, Milano. Un progetto di Mario Trimarchi e Stefano Mirti in collaborazione con @adidesignmuseum https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6a476d29d5ca7257c3b741e2/t/6a6ca71b889c044a57875e4b/1785505564095/LA+SCUOLA+INUTILE_Abstract+%3A+ENG.pdf

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and not just in the UK, please https://www.cityam.com/ditch-the-usual-suspects-gov-uk-founder-urges-labour-to-look-beyond-big-four-consultants/

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