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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Los Angeles Against the Mountains
It burns as if it were soaked with gasoline. Chaparral plants typically have multiple stems emerging from a single root crown, and this contributes not only to the density of the thickets but, ultimately, to the surface area of combustible material that stands prepared for flame. Hundreds of acres can be burned clean in minutes.
This essay is simply one of my favorite pieces of writing.
Mystically, unnervingly, the heaviest downpours always occur on the watersheds most recently burned. Why this is so is a question that has not been answered. Meteorologists and hydrologists speculate about ash-particle nuclei and heat reflection, but they don’t know.
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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.