Did a new round of delightful chats with on the Hope in Source podcast.
In this first one we dabble in technology as an embodied process, how our cultural aversion to deleting data is a mortality issue, and lamenting the protestant work ethic.
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We also touch on digital gardening and the burden of maitenance.
Just like code needs to be maintained, what happens when your public knowledge base always needs tending?
In a real garden plants die (or you eat them). How might blog posts "dieβ or fade over time?
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What about a system where if you donβt update a post for 20 years, and no one reads it in that time, it deletes itself.
The degrading web? Decomposition organically built into the database?
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I watched American Factory based off this conversation and it was fascinating. Thank you for the great podcast episode!
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Oh good! Loved that film β wish Netflix would make/fund more content like it.
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