In his weekly editorial the founder of Monocle https://monocle.com/ talks about Beirut and how it has kept a lot from the past in good working order. He talks about the power of human contact in the service industry as well. Not all that is new, data driven and AI steered is good.

A day earlier I read an interview with Geert Noels https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/03/22/we-moeten-af-van-groot-groter-grootst-a3954278; an economist and author of the book Gigantism who propagates the idea that we should stop with striving for more and bigger, instead focusing on better, closer, more intimate and more personal.

​Both our kind of thinking…

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A buzzword or something real? It’s not easy to live and act sustainable if governments don’t implement strict rules and regulations and if companies offer all sorts of products and services at ridiculously low prices.
These prices are low because the impact on lives, on the environment and in the general on the planet are not included in the true cost price. Awareness of consumers and responsible producers are the answer…

​Check out H&M for instance, a company that’s trying…
https://about.hm.com/en/sustainability/Recyclingandgarmentcare/recycle-your-clothes.html
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Branding is necessary, but if a brand is known just for the brand an no longer for the quality, style and appeal of the products isn’t that defeating the whole purpose. Should branding not be about enhancing the product, service or experience instead of replacing it entirely? One example of where the brand supports the products is this Italian leather manufacturer…
https://www.tuscanyleather.it/en/
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Some people like it a lot, some people less so. But almost nobody has no jewelry at all. Branded or not branded, bespoke or off-the-shelf, cheap or expensive. Everything is possible.

What do you prefer and what do you think? Check this jeweller out https://www.edelsmederij-verweij.nl/ a true craftsmen.
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We spend time and money to dress up, decorate our houses, offices and shops. So what’s leading us? Is it fashion or style? Fashion is time related, style is timeless. Or is it?
This interesting article https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/04/style-vs-fashion.html sheds some light on the matter but we wonder what you are thinking.
 
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