Support is an active process.

This thing I’ve had on my mind about support structures and how they relate to progressive policy. An organization - “organization” (very) loosely defined as a set of related things that create something - isn’t progressive or wile or whatever if their approach to progressive policy is ostensibly no interference.

Cool. You won’t interfere with policy change. Giving a person or persons ownership is a good first step but it won’t actually result in useful change.

Useful change comes from support with requires active commitment and effort to sustain that new plucky for change. If the organization isn’t actively backing the policy change then every other process, processes that may not have considered this new thing, won’t work with them.

This will result in a return to the least energy stare which is the old way.

Let’s outline that.

1. If your organization is lacking something then that isn’t part of existing process.
2. If it isn’t part of existing process, existing process won’t accommodate it without lots of active effort.
3. Processes don’t change without active effort everywhere.
4. In the absence of active effort, process will revert to the previous norm.
5. Active effort from one or a small group of owners works only in the areas that can get their attention.
6. No active support from outside the owners will result in stagnation and burnout.

Smaller organizations can change this way. If there are 10 people and 1 of them owns and pressest for gushes, that’s easier because that one person can press on EVERYONE.

That doesn’t scale to thousands.

Permanent link: Http://blog.angrybunnyman.com/support-is-an-active-process.

A list of things

A list of things I’m not doing that I want to be doing but I’m probably just telling myself I want to be doing them because if I wanted to I’d probably just be doing them?

1. Writing about pretty much anything consistently.
2. Learning to draw, especially plants.
3. Not having existential dread every day.
4. Running.
5. Mapping out fruit tree guilds.
6. Trying rollerblading again.
7. Thinking less about aging and legacy.
8. Not beating myself up for being just a person.
9. Strength training.
10. Staring into a void. (Just any, not like THE void…)
11. Finishing that Screen Reader experience Javascript applet
12. ☑️Writing lists.

It’s both as easy and as hard as just…. doing the thing, you know? Permanent link: Http://blog.angrybunnyman.com/a-list-of-things

Rummy

Rumsfeld was working in his office on the morning that a hijacked jet flew into the Pentagon. During the first minutes of terror, he displayed bravery and leadership. But within a few hours, he was already entertaining catastrophic ideas, according to notes taken by an aide: “best info fast. Judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] @ same time. Not only UBL [Osama bin Laden].” And later: “Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.” These

Source: How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered by George Packer, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/how-donald-rumsfeld-deserves-be-remembered/619334/

I was in college during the Iraq war post 9-11 Iraq war. I remember turning on CNN when Bush announced the first wave of troops. My partner and I kept the news on straight for days. It’s interesting to see some of the most brazen lies that got us there started even before the towers fell…

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Always trust motives

It was just the latest in what has become something of a trend of micromanaging bosses and corporate real estate landlords and the people who want to kiss them both who are all very eager for everyone to “get back to the office” as soon as possible. For completely innocent reasons of course like this next guy. 

“People are happier when they come to work,” Sandeep Mathrani told The Wall Street Journal this week.  

Mathrani is the CEO of WeWork, the company that rents out office space. 

Source: Commuting is psychological torture by Luke O’Neil, https://luke.substack.com/p/commuting-is-psychological-torture

It seems those advocating the loudest for returning to the office are those with some sort of stake in the offices. Not the employees, the offices themselves.

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M-Adlibs

We created a multi-variant targeted ad designed to show you the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to. The ad would simply display some of the information collected about the viewer which the advertising platform uses. Facebook was not into that idea.

Source: The Instagram ads Facebook won’t show you by Signal, https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/

Signal is killing it lately and doing so with just epic levels of snark. Love it.

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Tiny tiny cannons

It’s one thing to power something using our own muscles, but the entire point of building an engine is to avoid manual labor and have the device exert the effort instead. To do that we need to find a reliable source of a strong force that is easy to direct. Thankfully, such device was invented hundreds of years ago — a cannon does exactly what we need. In the demonstration below you can observe how a cannon ball is fired from a cannon.

Source: Internal Combustion Engine — Bartosz Ciechanowski by Bartosz Ciechanowski, https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/

First, +1 points for accessible, global animation switches. Motion can induce nausea and nauseated people are disengaged people!

Second, +1 point for color coding the engine components and using that to build the schematics. Very nice visual narrative.

Otherwise, I love the idea that an engine is really a bunch of tiny cannons firing in a closed system. I mean, it pretty much is except the ball is a piston that directs the energy….

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