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{{a|design|[[File: Liverpool modern.jpg|450px|center|[[Survivorship bias]] waiting to happen. AKA: Seemed like a good idea at the time.|thumb]]}}Random thoughts on the impermanence of [[modernism]]. | {{a|design|[[File: Liverpool modern.jpg|450px|center|[[Survivorship bias]] waiting to happen. AKA: Seemed like a good idea at the time.|thumb]] <br> | ||
[[file: Worcester cathedral.jpg|center|450px|dThumb|Done properly. 1,000 years in; failing war or civilisation’s collapse in the mean time, at least 1,000 more to come.]]}}Random thoughts on the impermanence of [[modernism]]. | |||
===The curse of novelty=== | ===The curse of novelty=== | ||
What is new cannot last ''as the new''. Either it dies, or it grows ''old''. So if your only quality is novelty, you will [[Die Young, Stay Pretty|die young]]. Conclusion: build with qualities ''other than novelty''. If only novelty gets you out of the gate — ''enjoy your fifteen minutes''. Blondie had it backwards: [[Die Young, Stay Pretty|Stay pretty? ''Die young'']]. | What is new cannot last ''as the new''. Either it dies, or it grows ''old''. So if your only quality is novelty, you will [[Die Young, Stay Pretty|die young]]. Conclusion: build with qualities ''other than novelty''. If only novelty gets you out of the gate — ''enjoy your fifteen minutes''. Blondie had it backwards: [[Die Young, Stay Pretty|Stay pretty? ''Die young'']]. | ||
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Most nascent [[legaltech]] has only bad answers. (“AI”, machine learning, neural networks ≠ “tech that didn't exist till now”.) | Most nascent [[legaltech]] has only bad answers. (“AI”, machine learning, neural networks ≠ “tech that didn't exist till now”.) | ||
===Do it properly=== | |||
Do it properly. Build for the long term. The lesson of Worcester, and its Cathedral: if you make it easy, you will attract the mediocre and encourage them to be lazy. If you do it properly, it will stand for 1,000 years and still take the breath away. | |||
Form v function and substance over form. [[Condorcet paradox]]? | |||
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