How to beat the experts at their game

Giap, Vietnam's own Napoleon, was not a military man. He was a school-teacher.

But through self-education, course correction and determination he defeated two empires

palladiummag.com/2023/01/20/vie… This was a secondary thread in my latest @palladiummag piece that I would have liked to explore.

While doing research for this piece, I was profoundly marked by the Giap's and Ho's belief that they could attain high levels of proficiency in skills simply by developing them.

There is debate raging about architecture in the West framed as traditionalist vs modernist.

This is false dichotomy. Once you leave the West, you realise that it's just another limitation.

Queue Bill Bensley, possibly the most important architect of the last 20 years 🧵 Probably the greatest living architect in Southeast Asia and one I would point to as an example of overcoming this false dichotomy and moving beyond modernist and traditionalist labels.

He works primarily on luxury hotels.

Oberoi Udaivilas Udaipur, built in 2004