daily updates re covid really putting me into my "Door Into Summer" mindset none of this matters shhhhhttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1154383279019188225 …
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2/ someone recently @-ed me or DM-ed me recently and reminded me of the small bit in the wonderful book "Soul of a New Machine" where an EE had a freak out dealing with logic analyzers and nanoseconds and quit, saying "I will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season"
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3/ "season" is a good unit, but there's also a strong case for "decade" hmm something something Minksy "society of mind" / Stephenson "Anathem" mashup nested concents inside one's own head, with "seasoners", "yearers" and "decenials" handwave handwave https://anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Concent
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