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Building software 🤖 resilience ✊ enthusiasm 🎉 and community 👯‍♀️
</p> </header> <div class="mx-auto max-w-[800px] pt-4 px-2"> <blockquote cite="https://open.spotify.com/episode/52GGqpGDgZTTYGTQ4sAwLa" class="py-8 max-w-2xl text-base font-serif"> <div class="border-l-8 border-white border-solid -ml-3 pl-3">  <p class="text-lg">The tool of imagination is looking at the two options on the table and saying:
<br> <i>No! There are 10 more!</i> </p>  <footer class="text-zinc-600 font-mono pt-4"> <small> <span class="pr-1">—</span><a class="" href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/52GGqpGDgZTTYGTQ4sAwLa">Phoebe Tickell, <time datetime="2023">2023</time></a> </small> </footer> </div> </blockquote> <!-- <Quote by="Simar Bajaj" year="2024" cite="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2024/jan/03/what-is-phone-addiction-definition-science-debate">
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				Social scientists have a word for labels like addiction: they call it an “<b>empty signifier</b>”, bearing no specific meaning beyond what's been imposed on to it.
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				"Folks can have a mutually intelligible conversation about 'addiction' and believe they're talking about the same thing,” said Jennifer Carroll, a medical anthropologist at North Carolina State University, "and they're really not."
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The next step will require great humility, since we are now so prone to confuse great building projects with great social achievements. 
				We will have to admit that it is beyond the scope of anyone's imagination to create community.
<br><br>We must learn to <strong>cherish the communities we have</strong>, they are hard to come by.
</p>   <footer class="text-zinc-600 font-mono pt-4"> <small> <span class="pr-1">—</span><a class="" href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/seeing-like-a-state-how-certain-schemes-to-improve-the-human-condition-have-failed-james-c-scott/3456225?ean=9780300246759">Jane Jacobs via James C. 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