Bruce Mau’s educational endeavour seems very keen on the *new* side of whatever-it-is we do (though he has been very clear that what *we* do is not what he do). A definite push for expansion rather than perfection. Yet elsewhere I see a tracing back to routes, a focus on deliberate craftmanship rather than bleeding-edge showboatsmanship. A focus on good rather than explicitly new. And I realised I was judging Bruce Mau as passé for pushing forward in such an old-fashioned net way.

Is it another net-irony that the latest trend is a shaker approach, and that last year’s fashion-victim is the one still trying to cut edges?