February untitled notes: 02-26
- Iria Carreira
- Mar 6
- 3 min read
Apologies for the delay on this, but life is getting back to pre-pandemic levels of speed and altitude, which in my case means fast and furious. I will need to keep on using my discipline to keep up with this, but I am rooting for myself and my loyalty to my 10 readers.
Either way, here we have some of the listens and reads of February. You will find that this month, there is not so much focus on product/built environment, or at least there is diversity in themes. I try not to overconsume product/tech or built environment media, by this I mean I try to diversify and look into other subjects…Otherwise, I feel that everything is too much the same. My university teachers back in Spain used to say “el conocimiento es transversal”. So, Google Translate that, and you catch what I meant.
So let’s share the February untitled notes!
Podcast episode
Ignorance, confidence and all.
We say in Spanish “la ignorancia es atrevida” which translates as ignorance is daring…lose translation. This podcast was great. I got it from my manager, and it was so eye-opening. I would say that it has two distinct parts regarding ignorance. One is about a piece of research on students taking exams and shows how well or poorly they did, and, of course, the lower scorers really thought they had done better. Listen to it because it is fascinating. The second part is more emotional, and it is about ignorance in relation to memories, and some very interesting syndromes where people can remember every day of their lives vividly. There is one testimony in particular of a guy that broke up with his partner that was heartbreaking, and also they mention my favourite tv show of all time: Mad Men, and the Kodak episode, if you know you know.
Interesting article:
Colour and the world.
Another fascinating read was from a subject that one of my friends is obsessed with: colour.
This is a brilliant article and analysis about how the taste of consumers has been changing, and the world is losing colour little by little. I would say that, as a trained architect with close ties to Scandinavia, my wardrobe is black, navy, grey and white mainly, and my house is in very much material surfaces like wood or white. If I bought a car, I would probably be equally dull and go for black. But it did make me think about how more and more is the same, and maybe that simplicity was good for Dieter Rams, but we probably need something a bit more fun. Anyway, sharing here, what colours do you have in your house and wardrobe?
Bonus podcast:
World Labs, physical AI and Dr Fei Fei
The last one that I will share is kind of cheating, because it is a podcast that I listened to in November when it came out. But Autodesk, the company that I work for, invested in World Labs. I strongly recommend it for people interested in the subject. When I listened to it, what struck me the most was:
- Dr Fei Fei got into AI for the love of the subject, not to be an AI bro, but an honest interest, which made me respect her a lot.
- She sounded like a real human and sane person, living in the real world. Sometimes, with AI folks, I feel they are in a parallel dimension.
- She talks about physical AI, 3D and the construction of new worlds.