Back in the summer of 2019, I wrote a draft on the ways tech companies were shaping life in our cities with something we tend to take for granted: maps.
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Beware of Philanthropists Who Want Control in Exchange for Their Giving
True generosity works in the opposite direction. It flows quietly to communities that already know what they need. It builds capacity, not dependency. It measures success by voices strengthened, not by names engraved.
Setting aside the whole, “is there such a thing as a good billionaire?” question for another time, can we at least recognize a fairly consistent pattern: there seem to be several incredibly wealthy women (Jobs, MacKenzie Scott, Melinda Gates, to name a few) who are working hard to improve the world with their wealth while the bulk of wealthy men (or at least the loudest?) are doing anything but that.
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Minding the gap
Design Engineers are well-positioned to step into the gap between product design and engineering and help close it from both sides.
A bit on writing & publishing
The one in which I participate in the “blogging” chain letter that has been making the rounds in the indie web community.