Tom Paine
20/20 Blindsight
We live in an age of arrogance, and cognitive bias Covid. Take, for example, 20/20 hindsight. A lot has been written about the hindsight...
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Tom Paine
- Mar 25
- 2 min
There is No Planet B
Ever since a life-changing year spent in Taiwan in 1976-7, I have been drawn to Guanyin, the Chinese goddess of compassion. I wonder how...
Tom Paine
- Feb 27
- 24 min
Sense and Sentimentality
mostly written over two decades ago, mostly still ringing true I am a sentimentalist. I am not afraid to be influenced by emotional...
Tom Paine
- Feb 20
- 7 min
Our Backstories, Front and Center
Our backstories began generations before us, and however much of that tale we think we know, there is more fascination lying in wait. We...
Tom Paine
- Dec 4, 2023
- 18 min
The Three Ds of 3-D
I wonder if the rules of the visual game might be changing. Just as the experience of the eyes has always crowded out that of the other...
Tom Paine
- Nov 1, 2023
- 27 min
Pre-Xi China
This long-march of a blog draws on material I had hoped to see into print a decade ago—China Makeover, the perspective of a design...
Tom Paine
- Oct 26, 2023
- 6 min
My Greenway Corridor
I was lucky enough to grow up in a designed landscape in Weston, Massachusetts, that showcased the talents of Olmsted, Ernest W. Bowditch...
Tom Paine
- Oct 18, 2023
- 4 min
Driving with Attitude: Seeing the Eye-Openers around Us.
Just a few car lengths off Route 9 in Newton, Massachusetts, Hemlock Gorge is still the wildest spot on the Charles River. Chances are,...
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