Kannik
@kannik.bsky.social
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A polymath lynx who finds the world fascinating and lives in possibility.
#Mindfulness
Moment: Butt time! Oh, wait... apparently it's only 'but' time. Still, a good distinction between it and 'and' that seems so minor that it couldn't possibly be consequential yet is quite powerful indeed. :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
Letâs talk about our buts. Alas, not our butts, though we could talk about that too⊠no, instead about when we use the word âbutâ and how it differs from when we might instead use the word âandâ. âŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2026/01/20/philosophy-tuesday-557/
4 days ago
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#Architecture
Moment: I love when something so "mundanely" built with "mundane" materials reveals something fun. :)
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Architecture Monday
A nice straightforward office building with straightforward materials⊠with a fun and playful twist for those passing along the street. With just a few movable panels, the facade comes alive âŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2026/01/19/architecture-monday-536/
5 days ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: âSin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself.â - Granny Weatherwax
11 days ago
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#Architecture
Moment: Another cool kindergarten. :)
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Architecture Monday
A cool kindergarten for us all tonight! Rich in tactile materials, built for the rainy climate, and a neat interior within its a square-to-meet-the-street-grid exterior. Himi Shinmachi Daycare CenâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2026/01/12/architecture-monday-535/
12 days ago
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#Mindfulness
: You are whole and complete You always have been And you always will be You may not experience it And you may sometimes take actions that donât reflect it But it doesnât change that fact There are just barriers to your experiencing it Welcome to the New Year Whole and Complete
18 days ago
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#Architecture
Moment: Not quite hanging by a thread, but more so supported by a needle? Also turns out that's not quite it, but it's one beautiful bridge gallery with an ancient building technique holding it all up. :)
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Architecture Monday
Bridging between two existing buildings to provide seamless access across a road, this marvelous bridge and gallery brings back to life an ancient building technique to create both this wild sculptâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2026/01/05/architecture-monday-534/
19 days ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: I've spoken a bunch about the power of apology, and I love how this speaks to how much we could as a society value them more. I doubly love how this also looks at its intersection with the legal system and with those who profit from it:
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Philosophy Tuesday
âI think an apology wouldâve actually done a lot. I wouldnât have really needed, frankly, that much. But I wouldâve felt that if [they] had acknowledged what had happened asâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/12/16/philosophy-tuesday-554/
about 1 month ago
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#Architecture
Moment: Sometimes wonky angles feels like wonky angles. Sometimes, combined with a courtyard atrium, a city block, and much walkways and stairs, it feels just fine (and neat!) :)
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Architecture Monday
From that cool overhead shot, almost the whole concept of this communal living apartment can be read, with its combo of a central courtyard shaft and slices all on wild diagonals to create a sharedâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/12/15/architecture-monday-533/
about 1 month ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: I do love analogies. It's true. So here's one about creating possibilities and the work it sometimes takes to fully live into them. :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
Not all new possibilities lock in so immediately that the first time a situation arises that tests the possibility do we find ourselves fully embodying it and living a whole new experience, as wellâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/12/09/philosophy-tuesday-553/
about 2 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: Classic Art Nouveau Greenhouse + Modernism Influences = cool new botanical garden :)
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Architecture Monday
This one is fun, bringing inspiration from Art Nouveau greenhouses and exhibition halls (like the Grand Palais) and adding a touch of modern forms (reminding me a bit of Andoâs Fort Worth MusâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/12/08/architecture-monday-532/
about 2 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: often, the difference between a student and the master is that the master has failed (and worked to learn from it) more often than the student has yet tried
about 2 months ago
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#Architecture
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about 2 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: I love to talk about practicing things. But haven't talked much about practice itself. So let's do that! With a side order of "eating bitter." ;)
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Philosophy Tuesday
While this dovetails nicely with the mindset of âeating bitterâ, here is an perspective to adopt that might both be more approachable and also be a good first step: Embrace practice. Whether in KunâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/25/philosophy-tuesday-551/
2 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: I am a sucker for "box in a box" type projects, especially adaptive reuse ones. :)
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Architecture Monday
For whatever reason, I am a sucker for âbox in the boxâ type projects. Even above and beyond being a fan of adaptive reuse, as these typically are. And this one even goes so far as toâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/24/architecture-monday-530/
2 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: About the double joy and double power that comes from creating and harnessing ways of being in our lives. :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
One of our most direct ways of accessing new possibilities is through taking on and embodying ways of being. They donât have to be totally new ways of being, and they donât have to be novel ones eâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/18/philosophy-tuesday-550/
2 months ago
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#Architecture
moment: A little relaxation tonight? How about a lovely floating sauna, in among the Nordic pines, of course. :)
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Architecture Monday
A little relaxing sauna for this evening. Built on a farm by local students to serve both visitors and the community, floating on a local pond (which serves as a natural plunge pool!) surrounded bâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/17/architecture-monday-529/
2 months ago
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Itâs been 20+ years since I last released some alternate
#BattleTech
rules⊠not sure how this one will be received, but letâs go for it!
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2 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: More about how great (and how much progress) it is to notice when something is "off" or "not right" by looking at the frying pan that (often) smacks us when we create new possibilities and aim to embody new ways of being. :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
Riffing off this post a few weeks ago about how recognizing that something is âoffâ is, perhaps counterintuitively, a good thing, hereâs a further bit about how it shows up when we create new possiâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/11/philosophy-tuesday-549/
2 months ago
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#Architecture
moment: Another great community school, built with cool design even where $$ is not flowing. Everyone is worthy of good architecture. :)
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Architecture Monday
Another great school built for a local community, by the local community, and using whatâs in the community. And while the means in the community are limited, itâs not been relegated to a dank boxâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/10/architecture-monday-528/
3 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: While we often view biases as only influencing us to do harmful/hurtful things, there's also positive biases that influence us to do helpful/nice things towards certain groups. Yet they're still biases & when hidden can still lead us astray. :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
I was having this conversation with someone recently about âpositive biases,â which reminded me of this post from years ago. So many years ago that it was before these regular Tuesday posts, and aâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/04/philosophy-tuesday-548/
3 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: Another FLW building tonight, but in a different vein -- what I like to call "what amazing things you can do with humble concrete block". :)
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Architecture Monday
MĂ€ntylĂ€ was designed and built around the same time as the Kentuk Knob house I posted about a few weeks ago. Though about the same size, this one was intended to of the more âaffordable̶âŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/11/03/architecture-monday-527/
3 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: For both our own power and peace, it can be useful to take a moment to assess what are the (actual) stakes :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
Sometimes it can be worth asking, âWhat are the actual stakes here?â  Worth asking it in a way to help us get present and mindful and to ground ourselves to whatâs so: Do I need to solve this rightâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/10/28/philosophy-tuesday-547/
3 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: Let's go on a fascinating journey through the 100+ year history of this building that while it seems it ended up where it started (with a bit of polish and a new glass topper) but is instead one of many changes and a near complete rebuild. :)
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Architecture Monday
Something a bit different tonight. This looks like a âsimpleâ restoration plus addition, but itâs not quite that. That old bit? Itâs a reconstruction. And a reconstruction based almost entirelyâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/10/27/architecture-monday-526/
3 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: Astronauts talking about philosophy? Heck yeah! :) Specifically about integrity:
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Philosophy Tuesday
âIt was this idea that youâre not a person who has integrity, youâre a person who strives to be in integrity. Sometimes youâre out of integrity, and sometimes youâre iâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/30/philosophy-tuesday-546/
4 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: This isn't a house by Tadao Ando, and it is not in Japan (it's in Puerto Vallarta) but it is very much in the same vein, including an amazing quality of light. Plus I kinda dig the (what appears to be?) charred wood front gate! :)
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Architecture Monday
This is not a house by Tadao Ando, but it very much is in the same vein! Concrete, glass, sculptural, with a delightful interplay of rooms and circulation. It also adds a bunch of courtyards and zâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/29/architecture-monday-525/
4 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: Look out, it's kung fu / tai chi storytelling time! You know where it will lead... :D
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Philosophy Tuesday
Sometimes, when weâre at kung fu/tai chi practice or Iâm teaching a class, someone will say something to the effect of âugh, that didnât feel rightâ or âgeez, that felt totally unconnected.â To whiâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/23/philosophy-tuesday-545/
4 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: Kentuck Knob. Funny name perhaps. Sweet FLW design (with one hilarious exception!)
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Architecture Monday
Nearby to Fallingwater there is another FLW house, known as Kentuck Knob after the knoll upon which it is built. Thereâs a lot of âWritianâ elements here â the strong horizoâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/22/architecture-monday-524/
4 months ago
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What, yet another trip with yet more roller coaster riding? Yep! So here's another geeking-out coaster post. :)
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Coaster Wednesday
When this year started, I didnât plan on it being âthe year of the coasterâ for me⊠but it seems thatâs how itâs turned out! I recently hit up Six Flags Magic Mountain plus spent a lovely time at âŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/17/coaster-wednesday-5/
4 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: An adapted passage from the moving and amazing video essay by
@tomvanderlinden.bsky.social
, about living, our place in it, and the courageous choice we all get to make. It's more than well worth the watch!
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Philosophy Tuesday
âTo give up like that, to detach yourself like that, is not even really an option to begin with. In some strange way, our existence, our agency, our presence and impact in this world, is notâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/16/philosophy-tuesday-544/
4 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: And also
#Trains
Moment, for when one is traveling, one should never miss a chance to visit the awesomeness that is grand train stations. :)
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Architecture Monday
When one is traveling, one does not miss a chance to visit great train stations! Washington DC Union station, in all itâs civic, Beaux-Arts glory! By D. H. Burnham & Company. I love the âŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/15/architecture-monday-523/
4 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: Musing about expanding the 80% rule from just creative/making endeavours to the broader whole of living (and our self-judgements) :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
Thereâs another application we can make about the 80% rule â not just in when weâre creating or making things, but also for our everyday lives. Which is to apply that 80% rule to our own, sometimeâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/09/philosophy-tuesday-543/
5 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: Some shots of the REACH and how the great lawn/green roof meets the buildings and vice versa. With a bonus cool interior that reminds me of something I designed while in arch school (always a surprise that :)
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Architecture Monday
The REACH at the Kennedy Center caught my attention when I was there. Love the expanse of lawn/green roof, and the way it both curves up to meet the buildings and how the buildings curve down to mâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/09/08/architecture-monday-522/
5 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde est en droit de vous rendre injuste. Une facultĂ© de votre Ăąme Ă©tant une fois tyrannisĂ©e, toutes les autres facultĂ©s doivent lâĂȘtre Ă©galement.
5 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: So, yeah, I did indeed visit Fallingwater! I hadn't visited it since '93, when I was just a youngin in architecture school. Back then, I wondered if it could live up to the hype. Now, I wondered if it would live up to my memory. Yep. :)
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Architecture Monday
As hinted last week, I did indeed recently visit Falling Water. One cannot travel nearby and not visit what is perhaps the most famous house in North America (and one of the most famous around theâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/25/architecture-monday-521/
5 months ago
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If your art of big cats includes lynxes... then you clearly must have great sophistication and taste. :) (photo taken at Fallingwater)
5 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: As an architect, who deals with a lot of life safety things every day, I can't help but love
@hankgreen.bsky.social
's vid "No One Knows When They Don't Die". :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
Thatâs the cruelty of probability. It feels like a game of chance, but for the one who dies, itâs not a one in 330 shot. Itâs 100%. And this is the weird, beautiful, thing aboutâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/19/philosophy-tuesday-541/
5 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: I recently got to visit and check out the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Like a landform carved by the eons, it's a lovely iteration of the "patented" Cardinal curves with very much its own identity. :)
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Architecture Monday
Some photos I took of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, looking all the like a geologic landform naturally carved by the winds and the water flows of time standing stoically iâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/18/architecture-monday-520/
5 months ago
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If you want to read more roller coaster excitement sharing, I've got another post for you! :D Going over the highlight coasters of all of them I rode during my recent vacation.
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Coaster Wednesday
I got to ride a whack-tonne of coasters on my trip, and in the continued spirit of geeking out and excited sharing, here are my highlights! The Beast (at night) I intended the Beast to be the very âŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/13/coaster-wednesday-4/
5 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: Being wrong is bad enough, but being hoodwinked can lead to shame-spiraling-deleterious behavior. We can instead grant some space by getting that often we've (or others) been conned by professionals. (And yes, this seems quite topical...)
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Philosophy Tuesday
We, in general, donât like being wrong.* But we dislike being hoodwinked more. So much so that in those cases shame spirals are super close at hand, often leading to doubling down or to being disâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/12/philosophy-tuesday-540/
6 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: Is it a bold or is it a risky move, posting about a brutalist building? :P
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Architecture Monday
Brutalism â as with all art, some people like it, and some donât. Also like all art, some of it is done well and stands the test of time, and others not so much. And sometimes itâs a mixed bag. TâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/11/architecture-monday-519/
6 months ago
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If you want to read an experience sharing, geek-out, excited appreciation post about suspended roller coasters, well, I've got you covered! ;)
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Coaster Wednesday
Though it wasnât a direct intent when I planned my trip, I have now, delightfully, gotten to ride on all four of the remaining Arrow suspended coasters in North America. (Unfortunately, I never goâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/06/coaster-wednesday-3/
6 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: Told in semi-prose form tonight. :)
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Philosophy Tuesday
A new understanding, interpretation, discovery, or insight Does not automatically invalidate or undermine A previous understanding, interpretation, discovery, or insight ~~~~~ It could be a deepeniâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/05/philosophy-tuesday-539/
6 months ago
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#Architecture
Monday: Back from a trip! Looking at buildings I visited along the way, starting with the great Art Deco mammoth that is Cincinnati Union Terminal! :)
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Architecture Monday
I love trains, and I love grand train stations⊠so letâs glance over the great Cincinnati Union Terminal building in all its art deco glory! (That I also recently got to visit!) Entry fâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/08/04/architecture-monday-518/
6 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: (Over post length limit here so will link to the whole thing...first paragraph is gist though) If your âinnovationâ requires exploiting people, or harming others, or needs âguardrails offâ for it to succeed, then you donât have an âinnovation.â
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Philosophy Tuesday
If your âinnovationâ requires exploiting people, or harming others, or needs âguardrails offâ for it to succeed, then you donât have an âinnovationâ. We long ago invented abusive predatâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/07/15/philosophy-tuesday-538/
6 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: A nice observation hut. Great wood construction. Sweet and elegant cantilevers. Oh, and a stunning view. :)
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Architecture Monday
A window to the world in this observation hut. Built as part of a rural realignment towards ecotourism, made of local materials and a ruggedness that reflects the landscape around it. I love all tâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/07/14/architecture-monday-517/
6 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: Taking a bad AI exec take (which one of many, you might ask?) to dive into how art is fundamental to humanity and how the long & difficult act of making art (or doing other things) is actually one of our most empowering & greatest delights:
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Philosophy Tuesday
You may have seen some stuff recently about the AI exec* who made a claim about creativity, specifically in their case claiming that that majority of the people making music donât enjoy most of theâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/07/08/philosophy-tuesday-537/
7 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: A great bit of adaptive reuse + new addition that not only makes a project viable, but adds a whole tonne of new things to the community (including housing) while also preserving an industrial bit of its history. Real damn fine work!
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Architecture Monday
You all know I love a good adaptive reuse⊠and this one is extra fantastic. For starters, it was undertaken â by the architects! â to preserve an old pumping station that was slated for demolitionâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/07/07/architecture-monday-516/
7 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: I believe, like language, we come into this world primed for love and connection and kinship. Though, like language, maybe it's something we need to learn? (And do I end up trying to extend that language metaphor even further?)
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Philosophy Tuesday
Just like we are primed for language, I believe we emerge into this world primed for love and connection and kinship and community and care. Also just like language though, maybe this is something âŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/07/01/philosophy-tuesday-536/
7 months ago
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#Architecture
Moment: Neat firehouse that uses reclaimed steel (from a building being demolished) for it's impressive canopy... :)
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Architecture Monday
Neat new firehouse that uses reclaimed steel from a demolished building for its impressive canopy! And I guess fire poles have morphed into slides⊠Boulder Fire Station #3 by Davis PartnershiâŠ
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/06/30/architecture-monday-515/
7 months ago
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#Mindfulness
Moment: The great "Art Department Rules" by the even greater Corita Kent!
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Philosophy Tuesday
Great rules for art (and life) by the amazing Corita Kent
https://lynxthoughts.com/2025/06/24/philosophy-tuesday-535/
7 months ago
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