Tune Out USUCK FM and Free Yourself to Write – Chip on Your Shoulder
Freewriting—beating your inner critic by lowering your standards:
The trick is to type so fast that the clacking of the keys drowns out that voice.
Archive: October 27th, 2019
A World We Built to Burn | emptywheel
The climate crisis as technical debt:
What we’re dealing with is hundreds of years of something that software world calls technical debt. Technical debt is the shortcuts and trade-offs engineers use to get something done either cheaper or in less time, which inevitably creates the need to fix systems later, often at great cost or difficulty.
Some technical debt is understood up front, some comes from builders being ignorant of the system they are working in. Most of our planet’s infrastructure is mired in huge amounts of technical debt, most of which we didn’t know we were signing up for at the time, some of which we’re just incurring recklessly as we go along, unable to face the scale of the problem and pushing it off on the next generation.