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Maintaining the code our ancestors left running. What it takes to build community-owned systems - local AI, game worlds, hand-built homes - and the unseen work most builders skip.
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I quit my job to do something different. I ended up designing the same one. (opens the original)
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Seven years ago I walked into my boss’ office to resign. The previous year, I had lost my mother to cancer and a dear friend was murdered while cycling around the world. That type of grief makes you reevaluate your entire life. I had been wanting to leave my government job for a while, but there wasn’t any good reason to. As a geographer, I couldn’t ask for a better job. I helped implement the federal government’s first SaaS geospatial platform, working with all of EPA’s programs and partners to
If I Didn't Wash My Clothes by Hand (opens the original)
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To this day I sometimes feel guilty about how I got to spend the beginning of the pandemic: swimming in a river every morning, learning from traditional healers, sleeping in my simple dirt-floored cabin, sitting around a fire every night. I did get really sick at one point, but I came out the other side of it. Other than that week, it was glorious, even the washing my clothes by hand part.At the start of the pandemic I was living in Mexico City. I knew I didn’t want to stay in the city if it got
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