Regulatory frameworks should incentivize progress, not just penalize the past.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Every product should be designed with its next life in mind.
Architecture is not about solving problems but about creating atmospheres.
The true value of a forest can never be measured in board feet alone.