Feel like I can relate as someone who’s had to try to balance a project I was doing that seemed more aligned with criteria 1 against another project that was aligned with criteria 2.

in seriousness, I do think one of the most important tells of a good and competent tech worker is that they're not afraid of being replaced by the robot. the robot doesn't do the important parts.

Yeah, I think that’s a good summary of how I feel too. I’m always trying to look for opportunities for architects to say or do anything that’s remotely relevant in the current political moment.

That could be said about a lot of the issues & problems that architecture people do try to spend effort pointing out as well. And now the topic is connected to a current issue.

I just hope nobody gets hurt if the structure fails as a result of people being unable to make a decision about whether to replace or abandon it.

Yeah, I was thinking less about the task of getting people on the phone or responding to messages, and more like official policies and approaches when you do talk to someone. Especially for businesses that used to have generally positive perceptions in the public consciousness.

People hiring designers are so much of the problem; they’re scared that an adventurous design will somehow translate into higher costs or less reliable profits.

I realize what I’m proposing could have concerning privacy implications as well. But the stakes are higher that they were when the only issue involved was copyright enforcement.

Of course there’s plenty of motivated people who get around DRM, but it reduced more casual forms of that behavior. And using AI to avoid a short writing assignment is a casual behavior.

Computer ooze.

I think the solution we need is to make portable SSDs with flexible circuit boards that are floppy.

So now I always ask: if you're some faculty member posting loudly about gender justice or whatever, do you know the name of just one single person on your campus who deals with these cases? No? Then what are you doing.

That sounds effective, but also potentially stressful!

It also almost feels like time can slow down when you’re under a deadline, like the internal clock in your brain is running at a different speed and changing the length of every passing hour.