Case 1 was moving to LA. Wrangling 6 suitcases, 2 carry ons and an ornery cat out of LAX, I forgot my messenger bag with ALL our documents (which we were hand-caring for “safety”) in luggage cart while boarding shuttle driven by driver who didn’t help with luggage.
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In general, it really sucks that cost of technological modernity is having to take care of a bunch of insecure physical artifacts (keys, cards, numbers, original docs) that control access to everything — spaces, money, healthcare. The 2FA phone is an especially horrible one.
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Every crisis now is more than the basic crisis (health, injury, loss, damage). It’s also a “stack crisis” where you have to reprogram your connection to the information infrastructure API on the fly.
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I’ve surprised myself by how alarmingly composed I can be in physical crises, but I can’t think of anyone less suited to resolving Kafkaesque scenarios. Those push _all_ my crazy buttons.
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Being a programmer permanently ruined paper for me. I know how much it would cost them to make a website for entering my data. I know how much it costs them to transcribe my form. I know how many customer man hours they are thoughtlessly throwing away. It's just so insulting.
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do the grades change if it's your personal problem or someone else's? e.g. i am a total fail at personal bureaucratic crisis. my registration expired and now i can't drive? good as dead. but if i had to figure out your entire federal tax liability last minute...
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I’m slightly better helping others of course, but increasingly for a lot of stuff others can’t easily do it for you. Like calling credit card companies etc.
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Okay I’m not *that* dumb
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