Go Flip Yourself: week43->44, 2024
Meta - the fox skull - SF - skateboarding - zakkyo - familiarity and belonging - beyond consumerism - school is not enough - fashion and fatherhood - private train car - minivan
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
Facebook-Meta: the company that connected the world
4 billion monthly active users! This is bananas; and definitely worth a deep -deeper- dive. Meta received the Acquired treatment.
Stuff worth checking out
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column in is getting crazier by the week. This time, shared with us her relationship with The Fox Skull and brought us on the thin veil between who we are and who we could be.
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asked me great questions about the cities in my life and made me reflect on why San Francisco.
🛹 Some overlap between skateboarding and entrepreneurship by Arthur -and anyway always down for some skate video parts.
🏯 Talking about skateboarding always makes me think of the streets and city centers.
made me discover the Japanese word: "zakkyo". I love it.In sum, zakkyo buildings are part of the reason why Japan is such a consumer paradise. Greater Tokyo has 160,000 restaurants, compared to only 13,000 in Paris and 25,000 in NYC. Some of that is because of the Japanese government’s strong support for small retail businesses. But some of it is probably due to zakkyo buildings making it possible to sustain more small independent shops.
❤️ An old banger by
that touched me -again- recently.Familiarity is a misunderstood virtue. Cultivating a sense of belonging is under-practiced. No matter where you live it is worth trying to improve the small things of your world.
🛒 Talking about bangers, this compilation -to read in multiple times- by
is a master piece.
🏫 I can’t agree more with
here.We should be thinking much harder about ensuring children can make meaningful contributions, and we should teach them in ways that are sensitive to the context of the real world.
👕 As a still young dad well immersed in clothing. I enjoyed that three-in-one fashion special with
.You are what you wear. It felt that way, back then. What you wore was intimately tied to your sense of self. What are clothes if not outward reflections of internal projections? […]
Focus moves from fashion to function.
🚂 Wow, I’d never thought of private rail cars.
There is something about this coexistence and codependency of the public and the private which feels even more important now than it was in our last Gilded Age.
🚐 There is an ID.BUZZ near my kids school and I’ve to admit the car looks quite cool. Even though, I strongly advocate for cars staying outside of high density zones. Then, minivan it could be.
Enjoy the upcoming week 🥂💎 peace ✌️