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Here is a note for you.

  • Have been thinking about your success with bringing good exhausts into private spaces to increase air quality and wellbeing of people.

  • And I’ve been thinking about Signage - or: an attempt to shape a communication, an awareness

  • Exhaust hoods and better living spaces will be in the future

  • People will have nicer places to live (~ because of your work and of general progression of everything engineered and architected

  • I think of Germany (~ living spaces there are pretty nice; they are better; not perfect;

  • And while houses in Germany are better, people barely understand or know the GOOD INTENTIONS that were put into building them because they didn’t build them

  • And so, CULTURALLY SPEAKING, the intention behind building a HEALTHY, BEAUTIFUL place for Wellbeing is LOST

  • Somewhere along the way of making our world prettier and better, the intention of those shaping the world toward betterment was lost

  • A story that isn’t told

  • And I see the big danger here in unaware people living in paradise, not knowing how to use it, how to appreciate it

  • Signage

  • Signage is interesting

  • It tells the tiny stories

  • It places something into your head without your consent

  • You sorta have to read it

  • It’s a lot of warnings

  • A lot of: “this is the worst situation possible”

  • And that’s the narrative that engineers shape

  • Engineer tell stories too

  • But most of these stories are “instructions” and “warnings”

  • And I think we need to start telling more stories about “we put care into building this for these reasons”

  • So there grows a cultural memory and awareness of why we live in the world we live in

  • I think this will do good to human civilization in many ways - I won’t list all them right now

  • At the core, there is an energy shift in trying to pass on something, rather than hand off a product