Depending on who you ask, Sea Ranch's "enforced tastefulness" is either a bold vision or a lesson in the collective conformity necessary to execute that kind of vision. My view: it is both.https://devonzuegel.com/post/independence-for-whom …
Riffing off the main beat here, but... search space toward the next global peak is rocky + ridden with dead ends, and local peaks are themselves quite hard to find and execute on. I guess my aesthetic is to keep digging in the mud, but I can't fault a satisficer with superb taste