Deep connection is rhizomatic
Issue 83
Welcome, dear friends, to the newest edition of Sense of Place. I hope your weekend was delightful and filled with joy. In this issue, you will find Warren Buffet, Vimeo, Winy Maas and why we need gratitude. Enjoy!
The soundtrack of the week
This week's collection
1. I read this short statement by Warren Buffet, I think, one or two weeks ago, where he shared 3 good habits that will be a difference maker. There is one which I keep thinking about and would love to share with you: Warren Buffett's rule he follows
“Go to bed a little smarter each day”
Interestingly it means something if you really challenge yourself and learn something new - I love that.
2. This is a long thread on Vimeo. If you know Vimeo from earlier times, it is always the artistic and cool one - not youtube as a video-sharing tool. Also, it is the right perspective because Vimeo sits in the creator economy other than the others like YouTube, Netflix, and other consumer video companies. There is a great interview with Anjali Sud, the CEO of Vimeo at the Decoder, on why we are thinking like that.
Just give me a quick background. How’d you become CEO? What are the changes you made? And how are you headed into going public?
Yeah, so probably the most important part of the background is: Vimeo is a 16-year-old video platform, but we’re really three or four years into a very different strategy. And I became CEO to pivot the company, as you said, away from being a viewing destination or media platform, like Facebook or YouTube or Netflix, and really into a video SaaS or software company for businesses. Much more like a Slack or a Dropbox model, but for video.
So, now Vimeo’s chief product Ashraf Alkarmi says about why they got into AI, which is good and new for the platform at Tech Crunch;
👉🏽 Script generator that translates your ideas into a full script in seconds
👉🏽 Built-in teleprompter so you can speak to the camera like a pro and record in one take
👉🏽 Text-based editing that identifies and removes any “ums”, “uhs”, or awkward pauses in your video with one click
3. Last Thursday, I had a chance to listen to Winy Maas at RIBA, founding partner of MVRDV, which has been a famous architectural office not only for their building but also research they have been doing. And The Why Factory (t?f) is a global think-tank and research institute led by Winy Maas. He talked about “what is next” in the context of architecture through their research.
I advocate denser, greener, more attractive and liveable cities, with an approach to design that centres around user-defined, innovative, and sustainable ideas for the built environment, regardless of typology or scale. - Winy Maas
Whenever I find myself yearning for more interviews with someone - just as in this car on Winy Maas, I encounter this one from 2016. In the very short interview at The Talks; Winy Maass talks about the criticism or the pressure when he designed a building.
So, you know, I think the most pressure comes when you’re designing a building in a place where you live or where you’re from because you’re witnessing and facing the evolutions and developments that surround your action, your creation.
*A personal note on interviews: One of my fav. book is the one I shared in issue 4 (see below) with you, “Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations”
Nothing is constant. Everything changes.
Happy Sunday, friends! Today marks the 4th issue of this newsletter. There are billions of things you could be doing instead of opening my newsletter and yet here you are. Thank you for that. Image from Patternity - to commemorate Earth Day 🌏 (Every year on
4. Last but not least (thanks to my husband, who recently shared with me), there’s a special article in-between mind and heart: why gratitude really is good for us. The article begins by defining gratitude, which is a positive emotion that can arise when you acknowledge that you have goodness in your life and that other people have helped you achieve that goodness.
In other words -not to forget- psychologist Robert A. Emmons describes very easily for us;
Gratitude is the sources of the good things,
“lie at least partially outside the self. ”
Quote of the week
Deep connection is rhizomatic: it doesn’t have a closing date. It’s sustained, and it’s nimble. It lies in the cracks of conversations and connections and entails mutuality in the name of realising something that you can’t achieve alone.
— Jack Radley
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Until next time,
Nurgul