ICE is out murdering people in the streets of Minnesota today (and other locations, including detention facilities) around the nation. So fuck it, let’s talk about “doing enough” and despair. “What can I do?” “Am I doing enough?” “Why aren’t other people doing more?” “I can’t fix everything, so I might as well give up.” […]
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In the last post I did something I knew was gonna push people out: I questioned whether the screens around you were clean or not, and whether or not you knew how to clean them. That is, I questioned whether or not the solution to a very minor problem was within your control or not.
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POSIWID. I’d like to bring this term to your attention. It means, “[The] Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.” POSIWID is a way of looking at a system and determining its purpose by ignoring all the claims about what a system does or should do, and focusing instead on what it actually does.
(This post delayed by putting my money where my mouth is. What a pain.) Junk emails: a case study. How do you handle your busyness? I try to remind everyone I know once a year to unsubscribe from junk emails. On the one end of the email spectrum is mail you actually want; on the
The Asshole Mitigation Plan The Asshole Mitigation Plan is something I’ve been working on (and putting off working on) for a long time. And my brain says that we are writing this now. It’s always relevant. The general idea I’ll be poking at is this: ACCOMMODATING ASSHOLES IS NOT A VIABLE LONG-TERM STRATEGY. I mean,
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The Asshole Mitigation Plan: Unmitigated assholes are everywhere, and everywhere they are, the damage they do disrupts fucking everything. Start seeing unmitigated assholes for who they are and start mitigating the damage they do. Even if it’s you. Part 1: Intro – ACCOMMODATING ASSHOLES IS NOT A VIABLE LONG-TERM STRATEGY. Part 2: Junk Emails –
Win/win thinking…it’s one of those things that sounds great at first, but when you get into the details of actually having to do it, it can quickly becomes overwhelming. It sounds like bullshit: all you have to do to succeed is never get taken advantage of again!!! Uh. Easier said than done. But let’s talk about it.
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