#deactivatedfb

[ykatan-blog1]

Birthday cheatday. Thank you, @helmflores for spending it with me. 🤘🏻😎 #27th #deactivatedfb

[yellk]

Tailored or Universal

Plastic-framed sunglasses have two nubs for nose-pieces. Nose pieces keep the sunglasses in front of your eyes but off your face. The nubby things work for most people, but not my face. Smiling equates the monumental raising of the glasses way past the brows. Removing them unveils curved red depressions that highlight the bags under my eyes.

Personal tribulations aside, isn't it beautiful that such a simple geometry can do the job so well for most shoppers?! Or Apple's earpods, where they claim to find the most comfortable shape for human earholes? There is a magic about designing the universal, even if its backbone is lots data crunching, statistics, and optimization.

Tailored products lie on the opposite end of the spectrum. An object, process, moment optimized to accentuate and frame its subject. Done so felicitously that it not only serves its subject, but also draws awe onto itself. Can it be applied to anyone/thing/time else? Probably not.

I keep trying to find a happy medium between the two, because wouldn't that be ideal! The results are... lukewarm and laughable. Like "generally custom-made" or "one-size makes everyone beautiful." Maybe we just have to pick one or the other.

But now that Facebook is deactivated, I've got time to ruminate some more and practice SAT words.