Inspirations.

Partner and Vice-President, Strategy & User Experience @ Mirego.

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Why Now, More Than Ever, the Accessory Dwelling Unit is the Future of Home — Dwell

Why now, more than ever, the accessory dwelling unit is the future of home. Granny Pad by Best Practice Architecture With a new baby on the

"In the throes of a pandemic, widespread economic anxiety, and a normalization of working from home, these trends are poised to accelerate. “The nursing home model seems a bit antiquated now,” says Mike Koenig of Studio Shed in Colorado, which makes ADUs and customized backyard offices, gyms, and meditation rooms, as well as yoga, music, and art studios. “We see multigenerational housing as a growing market and get requests for these kinds of units daily.”

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No one cares about how much you know until they know how much you care

Theodore Roosevelt

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A director is a kind of idea and taste machine; a movie is a series of creative and technical decisions, and it’s the director’s job to make the right decisions as frequently as possible.

Stanley Kubrick

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“You only have to do things once before you can say that you have experience.”

Bjarke Ingels, https://qz.com/work/1176090/big-ceo-sheela-maini-sogaard-gets-her-business-advice-from-the-joker/

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The end of an era.

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Unsilenced

There’s a powerful message hidden in this music video.

Superbe collaboration entre Haute, duo électro de France, et Billy Read, un danseur sourd qui utilise la vibration des sons pour guider ses mouvements. Les paroles de la pièce sont entièrement chantés par une combinaison de langues de signe et de danse.

"Une grande première qui tend à démontrer que la musique peut être accessible aux personnes non-entendantes via sa dimension corporelle. Car en effet, si les personnes sourdes ne peuvent pas entendre la musique, elles peuvent toutefois la ressentir et l’exprimer autrement que pas les sons. C’est ainsi que le groupe HAUTE a collaboré avec le danseur sourd Billy Read pour créer le premier morceau entièrement composé en langue des signes. Le résultat : un clip fascinant, sans aucune parole chantée. Et pourtant, la partie la plus importante de ce morceau, ce sont les lyrics."

http://www.miala.fr/haute-feat-billy-read-unsilenced-le-premier-morceau-compose-en-langue-des-signes/

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“At the risk of sounding terribly sentimental, I do think one of the things that just compel us is that we have this sense that, in some way, by caring, we’re actually serving humanity,” he said. “People might think it’s a stupid belief, but it’s a goal—it’s a contribution that we can hope we can make, in some small way, to culture.”

Jonathan Ive, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come

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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Steve Jobs (https://www.wired.com/1996/02/jobs-2/)

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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Malcolm X

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Pitch meetings are minefields. If a V.C. asks you, “When you get to a hundred engineers, are you worried about the company culture or excited?,” the correct answer is “A hundred? I want a thousand!” Reid Hoffman, a V.C. at Greylock Partners who co-founded LinkedIn, told me, “I look to see if someone has a marine strategy, for taking the beach; an army strategy, for taking the country; and a police strategy, for governing the country afterward.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advance-man

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The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.

William Gibson

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Raconter des histoires efficaces n’est pas facile. La difficulté n’est pas de raconter l’histoire, mais de convaincre tous les autres d’y croire. Une bonne partie de l’histoire tourne autour de cette question : comment convaincre des millions de gens de croire des histoires particulières sur les dieux, les nations ou les sociétés anonymes à responsabilité limitée ? Quand ça marche, pourtant, cela donne au Sapiens un pouvoir immense, parce que cela permet à des millions d’inconnus de coopérer et de travailler ensemble à des objectifs communs.

Harari, Yuval N. 2015. Sapiens: une brève histoire de l’humanité

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If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

Einstein

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When two people say, “I’m the best,” one of them is lying.

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets (https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B015MOJ80G/)