There’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers — at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.
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Happy New Year!
What can a technologist do about climate change?
This is aimed at people in the tech industry, and is more about what you can do with your career than at a hackathon. I’m not going to discuss policy and regulation, although they’re no less important than technological innovation. A good way to think about it, via Saul Griffith, is that it’s the role of technologists to create options for policy-makers.
Mockery, of course, is the cheapest and most available tool that the powerless have against the powerful; it has historically been the one thing that they can’t silence.
There is some dawning awareness these days of the insanity of raising children almost entirely indoors, but as usual our society’s response to its own insanity is to create artificial programs designed to solve our artificial problems in the most artificial way possible.
Summer in April
A run of unseasonably warm April weather makes for nice evening light.
Forests represent a kind of ecological infrastructure that helps maintain comfortable living conditions on the planet.
Anthropic Capitalism And The New Gimmick Economy
Is society now focused on market capitalism because it is a fundamental theory, or because we have just lived through the era in which it was possible due to remarkable coincidences?
Oyster Dome
Hiked up to Oyster Dome lookout off Chuckanut Drive, with stops at BreadFarm in Bow and Skagit Building Salvage.
Maxwelton Beach
Trying out a new, inflatable kayak south of Maxwelton Beach.
