Yo! Miami? 🔥 Time to Get to 👨💻 Though
I spent a little over a week in Miami, Florida to spend time with a friend and to enjoy the parties around Carnival. It’s a Afro-Caribbean party that spans multiple days (bordering on a week depending on your tolerance) where people get a bit bonkers but in all good fun and faith. Unavoidably, I’ve spent about half of my morning time, if not recovering from the night (and early morning!) before doing the usual sales + lead generation. A friend mentioned that a contractor “always be selling”, which is painfully true. It takes time if your pipeline isn’t solid but I think I have a non-leaky one (so far). That’s the wheel of consulting for me.
I’ll do my best to avoid selling anything to you in this mailing list. If you are interested in product-related stuff, I’d suggest that you subscribe to another mailing list (I know) over at https://black.af. I might plug it but never will I sell from this list.
There’s a project I’m hammering on the down time that I find around the IndieWeb. To be honest, once it’s done, it’ll be very invisible to most people who use silos (things like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) but very apparent for those who visit my personal site. I wrote a bit about the technical plumbing in a short post on my site.
Climate Change
Yo. I ain’t really check into climate change like that. Like I be recycling and what not. But then Gerard linked me to this article from New York Magazine and I’d be an ass if I kept it myself. Long story short? We have until 2040 until the ecological state of the world begins to fall apart. There’s some stuff we can do as individual citizens and constituents but these companies are really just driving our spaceship into the ground. We gotta get on top of this. One thing I found interesting was this tidbit:
To avoid warming of the kind the IPCC now calls catastrophic requires a complete rebuilding of the entire energy infrastructure of the world, a thorough reworking of agricultural practices and diet to entirely eliminate carbon emissions from farming, and a battery of cultural changes to the way those of us in the wealthy West, at least, conduct our lives. And we need to do all of that in two, or possibly three, decades. As a comparison, simply the last phase of the recent three-stop extension of New York City’s Second Avenue subway line took 12 years. All told, from the first groundbreaking, the project took 45 years.
I don’t know if you know but farming is not only an ancient tradition, it’s an expensive and climatically DANGEROUS one. This is me slightly pushing for y’all to consider that black bean burger over the beef or chicken one. Retroactive purchases can make a change. But I’m even questioning if it’ll be enough.