There are lots of movies where the main character is an architect, but only one of them is about architecture. I talk about The Fountainhead (1949) with @felixsalmon & @EmilyRPeck on this week's @Slate Money Goes to the Movies podcast 1/5 slate.com/podcasts/slate… Ayn Rand was a movie-mad kid in Leningrad before moving to the US in 1926, landing a job in Hollywood as a jr scriptwriter for Cecil B. DeMille. So when Warners optioned her breakthrough novel 17 yrs later, she came prepared, insisting her script be shot exactly as written 2/5

Am I the only designer who's noticed that @Succession_HBO neatly summarizes the five basic types of horrible client? A quick & depressing thread 1/ Kendall Roy: earnest but powerless. Kendall (played by Jeremy Strong) says he's in charge, but ultimately reveals that someone you've never met has to review the work — don't worry, it's just a courtesy! As usual, he's failed to 2nd guess his boss & you're back to square one 2/

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A week ago, I asked for suggestions for interesting speakers who might be good replacements for me, an old white guy, at your next design conference. I got some great suggestions. Here they are
1/9 First, two great resources that speak for themselves:
A Reparative List for The Male-Dominated Conference
docs.google.com/document/d/1RU…
and
Women Talk Design
womentalkdesign.com
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