I think this is right. At least in a N. Am. context, crushing labour has meant that people feel powerless to resist slow dehumanization and deskilling of work. Your job gets crappier each year but what can you do?

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of the things the guys (always guys) hyper-rationalising on behalf of data centres seem to not understand is that these physical bits of infrastructure are also doing a lot of metaphorical heavy lifting for people who are ambivalent about and/or have low trust in tech

Double weeknotes today! Coworking in a church, reflections on the attention/anxiety/action loops that homeownership sculpts, farm animals Last week: spencerbeacock.com/weeknotes/20... This week: spencerbeacock.com/weeknotes/20...

Extremely Ontario-coded afternoon activity: A sink sprang a leak, so I put the old part in a plastic milk bag and went to the obvious place for plumbing supplies, Canadian Tire

Weeknotes for Mar 22 - 28: spencerbeacock.com/weeknotes/20... In which I discuss birthday cake, Marathon, and Sinners

My big project over the last 14 months (!) has been building a shed from scratch. It’s been incredibly satisfying to make a little building from nothing. It’s not done, but it’s rigged for lighting now, and the glow is so cozy that I couldn’t keep it all for myself. Happy Friday.

Heatwaves can be dry, or wet, or dry-then-wet, or wet-then-dry, or wet-then-dry-then-wet, or... It all depends where you are and what season it is! Our new paper dives into the cool world of heatwaves and precipitation. doi.org/10.1088/3033... @ioppublishing.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social

Going to miss the fantastic textiles and tilework and dishware in Andor. What a show.

Another form of catnip for a certain kind of systematizing brain: writing business requirements for a technology solution. "Here are 700 imperative, all-encompassing sentences articulating my specific mental model for how the world should work, each categorized and nested and linked"

Spencer Beacock@spencerbeacock.bsky.social · 2y ago

The need to write design principles* has strong “underperforming former gifted kid” energy (* a bunch of rules that are your idiosyncratic attempt to steer a messy thing in a conclusive way (and which make you mad when all your peers don’t follow them))

Let’s try ‘working in public’ again, here’s what’s on deck: - kick off new project (going deep on an arcane discipline’s ways of working/processes, to draft req’ts for the software chassis it sits upon) - build out journey, IA, req’ts, and WFs for a small digital thing

Ok, on deck for today: - Review a pseudo-proposal — really more of a menu - Rebuild a project plan for a requirements definition project for enterprise health software - Draft a quick and dirty qual research plan and recruit spec - Schedule a handful of workshops and meetings over the coming weeks

Here’s a lovely little ode to e-bikes from @robinrendle.bsky.social Maybe 2025 is the year for me to get one, and perhaps you too. They are, after all, marvellously *democratic*.

Robin Rendle@robinrendle.bsky.social · 2y ago

E-bikes are the future we deserve. robinrendle.com/stories/this...

In news unrelated to the other thing going on: my dog continues to be extremely good.

Made a little tool caddy today. It was not a hard puzzle: no complex stakeholdering, no fundamentally misaligned incentives. Instead, it was about imperfect material and the still-learning movements of the tools. In the span of about four hours, a need was resolved, simply and without frills.

The need to write design principles* has strong “underperforming former gifted kid” energy (* a bunch of rules that are your idiosyncratic attempt to steer a messy thing in a conclusive way (and which make you mad when all your peers don’t follow them))