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How to read value in a world without standards
How the abolition of the guild system in 1791 removed visible standards of quality from objects... And how to judge value without them.
11 hrs ago
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Robbert Leusink
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Why you can no longer recognise good craftsmanship
The 1791 law that abolished the guilds, and made quality invisible inside modern products
May 20
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Robbert Leusink
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The loss of local belonging
How a 1,500-year-old Church practices taught communities where their world ended, and the 4 practices that recover it today
May 16
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Robbert Leusink
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For 1,500 years, the Church walked the boundaries of your world
How the Rogation processions taught us where community ended, obligation began --and why modern people no longer know either
May 13
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Robbert Leusink
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How to read your environment: a 5-question field test
The diagnostic framework used by architects, craftsmen and city planners who still build for people, applied to every street, room and object you…
May 9
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Robbert Leusink
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An essay from 1908 became the blueprint for modern ugliness
How Bauhaus turned a correct idea into a doctrine against beauty
May 6
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Robbert Leusink
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How to build a life that corrects you
The structures that test your judgement before it becomes expensive
May 2
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Robbert Leusink
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April 2026
Why intelligent men keep being wrong about reality
How Europe built systems that forced men to be right, and why you now live without them
Apr 29
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Robbert Leusink
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Modern buildings feel wrong because we forgot the criteria of building
A field guide to architectural quality built from the only standard that has worked for two thousand years
Apr 25
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Robbert Leusink
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The Dutch built the world's coastlines. At home they need to apologise for success.
How the country that invented the modern world dismantled the culture that produced it.
Apr 22
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Robbert Leusink
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Your day has no shape. Here is how to give it one.
A six-part daily framework derived from the structure that built Western civilisation: applied to your working week.
Apr 18
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Robbert Leusink
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The Holy Washerwoman vs. Your Career
A 7th-century duchess understood work better than modern professionals, CEOs, and the entire wellness industry.
Apr 15
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Robbert Leusink
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