Val Kalinic

@KaranasiosSt @lufthansa @Airport_FRA They left boxes of Twix and a tray of water bottles. After pointing us here, in the area available during the night we found only a security guard unrelated to the company. Customersupport ZERO: Counters closed. Phone number useless. Lounges locked. In the app a dumb useless AI.

@valkalinic @lufthansa @Airport_FRA Are they giving out food? Is there any customer support nearby?

If you plan on traveling with @lufthansa — don’t. They are making around 30 of us spend the night on stretchers at the fully lit and noisy @Airport_FRA after they delayed our flight, instead of finding accommodation or at least letting us into one of their lounges. #airtravel

One stretcher and blanket per person. Hey @lufthansa could you sleep in hallway with no dinner (yes we were offered Twix), no pillow, and no eye cover (under the fluorescent lights)?

i keep thinking about this bar’s menu design.

MEXICO68 — My favorite branding case, and probably the best design Olympics, by Lance Wyman Visual Thread 🧵↓

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Mac changed everything when it was introduced 40 years ago, and through the years it has done so again and again and again. Today’s Mac lineup is the best in the history of the personal computer, and it’s built on decades of revolutionary innovation. Happy birthday Mac!

We aspire our service to feel like this.

Apple Vision Pro pre-orders begin today! We’re so excited for you to experience spatial computing for the first time!  apple.co/applevisionpro

1996 → 2024, nice progress

New Balance x Tokyo Designs x Snow Peak Capsule Collection!🖤

Jean prouve CB22 chair - sketch, kit of parts, assembly, inhabit.

This brand was not designed in a day.

Hocker stool by Basel-based architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. vitra.co/ui #vitra #vitrahomestories

My favorite Charlie Munger story: In 1953, Munger was 29 years old. Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then. His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer. The leukemia was incurable. No medical insurance - Munger paid for all his medical care. Charlie would visit Teddy in the hospital every day -- and then walk the streets crying. Teddy died at the age of 9. Charlie was broke, divorced and just lost his child. 99.9% of people would've turned to alcohol, drugs, or suicide. (And you'd understand why) Munger never did. Fast forward to 52 years old, a failed surgery left him blind in one eye with the potential of going fully blind one day. Charlie was an obsessive learner who read every book he could get his hands on. When confronted with the possibility of going blind and no longer being able to read he said: "It's time for me to learn braille!" The only thing that might be more impressive than his intellect was his actions. RIP. --------- Munger on Self-Pity: "Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia… Every time you find your drifting into self-pity, I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying from cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation. It’s a ridiculous way to behave. Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t. There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."