this was an absolute pleasure
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this was an absolute pleasure
it’s time to get serious about the future of heritage
looking forward to engaging with the panel
Also fun fact >50% of big infrastructure projects in the UK end up in court
"causing average delays of 18 months & adding millions in costs"
This country needs investment, this country needs infrastructure, this country needs to actually build some stuff
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
@tomravenscroft.bsky.social can we chat about book reviews ?
🌪️ CLIMATE DEFENCE TECH 🛡️
new @articledotapp article for anyone who still thinks just cutting carbon will save us.
TLDR:
🥵 We blew it. We’re tracking towards 2.7C. 80% above target 1.5C.
💰 Swiss Re thinks it will cost the global economy $23 trillion USD per year by 2050.
It’s time to get real.
👩💻MILLENNIALS=NEW VICTORIANS🎩
new @articledotapp article on how millennials need to become the new Victorians.
TLDR:
🏗️ We need to build as if our lives depend on it. Because they do.
🔗 LINK: article.app/mprinparr/mi...
🚀 THE KARDASHEV CURE FOR ANXIETY 🌍
new @articledotapp article for anyone losing faith in humanity or feeling despair at the state of the world.
TLDR:
🧘♂️ Breathe in.
🌍 Zoom out.
🏗️ Build. WE are the cavalry.
Full piece here: article.app/mprinparr/th...
👽 TRISOLARIAN HISTORY,
SURFERS 🏄♂️ & ACCOUNTANTS 🧮
new @articledotapp article on how to succeed in an uncertain future.
TLDR:
🌪️ Human history = documented chaos
🧮 The future = incalculable chaos
🏄♂️ All the alpha is in identify waves and surfing them🤙🤙🤙🤙
🔗 LINK: article.app/mprinparr/tr...
🧟♂️ ZOMBIE INTERNET TO NETWORK STATE 🏙️
new @articledotapp article for anyone who thinks the internet is getting worse (it is)
TLDR:
💀 Dead internet theory is half right.
🧟 AI Zombie internet is upon us.
🧲 Political and cultural polarisation will intensify until it manifests in geography.
new article for anyone enraged by the ineptitude of their nation state (everyone)
TLDR:
Copy. Paste. Accelerate.
Exit + Voice.
Full piece: article.app/mprinparr/st...
urban systems are shot
2024 has been incredible, not without significant sorrow but probably the best year so far.
I’m particularly chuffed because I’ve completed the ‘legacy trifecta’.
✅finished a book (published Q1 2025)
✅planted a tree (oak)
✅had a son (super cute and super curious)
happy new year everyone🥳
New Article: A New Guilded Age
Deep History + Hard Sci-fi.
History rhymes.
A Medieval Sci-Fi future looks most likely.
article.app/mprinparr/a-...
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all xxx
reject decline
🇬🇧/acc
(pretty happy with the first sample. will road test and feedback)
stop building your urban economies for humans
build them for AI agents
People overestimate how hard change is, because they listen to people who don't have agency in their own life.
They underestimate what is possible, because they are listening to inaccurate reporters.
normies going from talking paper clips in MS word to AGI
common misunderstanding: things improve because people choose better
reality:things get so bad that people seek alternatives. they do this because its cheap + painless vs the status quo
it’s push first.
your job is to provide the ‘pull’
the scariest push at the moment?
away from nation states
AI frescos
We should have robots throwing these up everywhere.
Incredible beauty is now affordable.
Build homes. Mend potholes. Restore trust.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s four minutes of beauty for you.
20th Century: You’re the sum of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
21st Century: You’re the sum of the 5 SM platforms you spend the most time on.
NEW BOOK (and cover🔥):
URBAN HEALTHONOMICS: How to create healthy cities that accelerate economic growth
PUBLISHER:
Royal Institute of British Architects @RIBA
RELEASE:
March 2025
FULL SYNOPSIS:
www.martinprinceparrott.com/books
your business hero should hail from a time before colour photography.
extra marks if they’re are only visible in paintings.
special credit if they’re a sci-fi CEO.
a techno-polar world madam.
if you can keep it.
factories of the new old world
well run western nations are probably the most important piece of Kardashev Infrastructure
credit: @Macbaconai
