Food & Cooking
The true meaning of tea
Substitutes for the thermal experience
You can taste it with your eyes
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Madness
If you can't beat the classics
Waiting there to be experienced
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Chef's Table
Momofuku
The Incompatible Food Triad
Art of the Menu
I recommend eating chips
In Praise of Small Menus
On onion cutting
Cubed
A dry, husky business
A segment of the enormous file
Taylorism
Divided against itself
Form follows finance
Serendipity
Office survival
The office landscape
Open-plan the world
In the end, noise would always be a problem, when quiet was not placed at a premium. Interaction and communication were conceived of as norms in the landscaped office; introspection and concentration were sidelines. In the rush to open-plan the world, some crucial values for the performance of work were lost.
The cubicle
The cubicle had the effect of putting people close enough to each other to create serious social annoyances, but dividing them so that they didn’t actually feel that they were working together. It had all the hazards of privacy and sociability but the benefits of neither. It got so bad that nobody wanted them taken away; even those three walls offered some kind of psychological home, a place one could call one’s own. All these factors could deepen the frenzied solitude of an office worker.
Chilled-out anxiety
Working in the typical dot-com office was an admixture of frenetic pace and a relaxed overall atmosphere, exemplifying that chilled-out anxiety which was the general mood of the 1990’s.
A resource
The office, Chiat argued, had become the site of a turf war, not a place to do work. Changing the office “means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics,” he argued. “You come to work because the office is a resource.”