Edition-122 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About the delusion of decentralization: https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168?gi=c007f1084f75
• About using Theory-U to address the main conflict between open and closed, not between left and right: https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/axial-shift-the-decline-of-trump-the-rise-of-the-greens-and-the-new-coordinates-of-societal-b0bde2613a9e
• About Luc Tuymans’ Sanguine exhibition: using masterpieces to create conversations across time about western image making, propaganda and globalism: https://observer.com/2018/11/uc-tuymans-predicts-trumps-reelection-art-revenge/
• About China’s next-generation power lines: a clean-power play or a global power move? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612390/chinas-giant-transmission-grid-could-be-the-key-to-cutting-climate-emissions/
• About designing for a longer now, a bigger here, and a wider we. Brian Eno’s approach to producing music, through simple, open systems, should be adopted for the design of our towns and cities: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/11/09/brian-eno-architecture-planning-finn-williams-opinion-column/

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