Sublime

Project-Based Learning (PBL),

It’s a counterintuitive way to think about systems that are characterized by continuity, but in order to keep functioning in a changing world, these systems will need to change with time—to be responsive. More responsive infrastructure, systems that incorporate diversity and decentralization, can also be more resilient. And a more provisional,

I’ll leave it to you to determine just how much of the preceding was satirical exaggeration. The point of the story is to show how the design of a program can rapidly degrade in the presence of change. The original design of the Copy program was simple and elegant. Yet after only two changes, it has begun to show the signs of rigidity, fragility,

Many of the systems that I use today were built out using a top-down, technocratic mindset that imposed them on communities that had little say in where they would go, how they would be used, and by whom. It’s highways through African American neighborhoods and reservoirs that drowned ancestral hunting grounds. It’s also huge centralized systems