Two trends I saw this year, which are polar opposites, were the "slow and steady" approach and the "hacker mentality" of pushing things fast and iterating quickly.
"A lot of people are stuck with the old mentality of having things done for them," he said.
The very fabric that circulates electronic music is etched with a mentality of doing things differently than what the mainstream deems necessary; however, it's also an interesting dichotomy that's formed since EDM has seemingly become the mainstream.
Schools like Sherwood, and teachers like Mr. Ramos, are on the front lines, struggling against family mobility, neighborhood violence and the "pobrecito," or "poor little thing," mentality of low academic expectations.
"I think it's very much a part of this Frieze mentality that things be should be a bit unexpected, and always of high quality".
Co-founder Madeleine Shaw says this out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality is just one of a host of things contributing to the dominance of disposables.
"We need to recover from the mentality of only trying to fix things after an accident then waiting for another accident before demanding additional change," said Repon Chowdhury, executive director of the Bangladesh Occupational, Safety, Health and Environment Foundation (OSHE), discussing the Rana Plaza disaster.
There are a lot of things I worry about, unexpected things, because the mentality and manners are different.
There are a lot of things changing and one of them is the mentality.
He will come in with a backs-to-the wall mentality with things so close to the start of the Ashes.
