After our talk, someone asked me if we were all falling prey to the Luddite mindset, which is usually shorthand for “backwards technophobe,” but the actual Luddites were more interesting than that. Luddites weren’t anti-technology. They were pro-coevolution with technology. They smashed machines when those machines were used to devalue their labor... See more

Being surrounded by old things makes you aware of the responsibility of keeping them standing. This is what visible investment looks like - infrastructure you can see working (at least somewhat) and architecture that reminds you something was built to last. The question is whether the will to maintain exists elsewhere.

Each small choice accumulated into proof that someone thought about how systems should work.