Go Flip Yourself: week3, 2025
reflections and 2025 - analog revival - memory - newspapers and doomscrolling - artisan's paradox - China as the trendsetter - neighborhoods - cities - Street Fighter II - Conclave
Every week, I intend to recap here what I’ve written and published myself on k7v.in and the best things I’ve watched, listened to, read.
You can expect stuff around life, culture, tech, parenting, street. Not specifically in that order obviously.
Last week on k7v.in
2024 reflections. Coucou, 2025.
In honor of Janus -the God with two faces- it was time to look back at 2024, and welcome 2025 properly. One word for this year: ‘change’.
Stuff worth checking out
🔌 I haven’t met
yet but I’m a huge fan of his work and can’t recommend enough this interview of him by . It’s very thoughtful and I can assure you many nuggets of wisdom inside. For instance:The objects you wear—whether wired earphones or AirPods—say something about the tribes you belong to, the belief systems you hold, and how you identify with a group.
🧠 Yep,
again — this time on memory. This resonates a ton. Also because yes, it relates to my work with .Constraints incentivize care.
With productivity tools, there’s always a trade-off. In this case, as we delegate more of our memory-making behaviors to technology, we risk weakening our sense of perception & judgment.
📰 I just love this kind of perspective: ‘how French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world’. Elegance and hustle. It makes you think deeper about the current fears -and opportunities- of Internet, mobile, social media, AI.
In the 1860s, Charles Baudelaire bemoaned what we might now call doomscrolling:
“Every newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a tissue of horrors. Wars, crimes, thefts, licentiousness, torture, crimes of princes, crimes of nations, individual crimes, an intoxicating spree of universal atrocity.
And it’s this disgusting aperitif that the civilised man consumes at breakfast each morning … I do not understand how a pure hand can touch a newspaper without a convulsion of disgust.”
It also reminds me
own’s The End is nigh and here’s why.👩🎨 The Artisan’s paradox highlighted by
felt very close to heart. I see it almost on a daily basis -connecting with a various set of artisans myself. Also, I got lucky enough to personally meet Beatrice in SF last summer and can’t recommend enough her work. Objects worth remembering forever. First thing and I will do once based in SF will be to join her classes and learn to make our own leather accessories.
🇨🇳 I enjoyed this piece -almost a year old- from
. I’m often shocked by people’s views -or just pure ignorance- on China and I can tell very few think about China as a trendsetter. So here’s a dive into the ‘Chinese trends moulding digital habits in the West’.
🏘 ‘Recovering our neighborhoods’ sounds like an amazing endeavour.
delivers some very strong arguments as to why, and how. And ultimately, if not for us, let’s do it for the children.If we want to revitalize our neighborhood communities, we should ask: which factors explain why so many have declined in the face of technological change? I see four: changes in the physical landscape, decline in local institutions, individualization of religion, and shifts in our education and aspirations. Where these four factors have changed the least, community remains the strongest.
🌆 The origin stories of cities are myths so powerful. Thanks for the reminder
. It definitely makes me want to dig more into Lyon’s origins typically.It also reminded me Imagine a City - a love letter to the cities of the world by Mark Vanhoenacker.
🥊 I spent countless hours on Street Fighter II. Before going back to video games, I enjoy this kind of video.
⛪️ We watched Conclave this weekend and what.a.movie! Beyond the psychological thriller itself, I also learnt a ton about the Church rules once the Pope’s dead. Definitely worth a watch.
Enjoy the upcoming week 🥂💎 peace ✌️
I'd never heard of Imagine a City, will check it out! Glad you liked the post