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System design and the debt ceiling

kyla scanlon
Jun 01, 2023
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love, too, has to be learned

Hello! It’s been a while. I am in the middle of final-ish book edits for the book (on an incredibly tight timeline), several other projects (also again, painful timelines, if only it were all more malleable) and this funny battle I’ve had with time over the past few weeks and not enoughness of it has produced a few lessons for me -

  1. I lost my voice two weeks ago and then came down with a brutal bout of some sort of sickness. It’s funny the things that we take for granted, delicacies of presumed normalcy that could disappear at any moment.

  2. I was able to see my family for the first time in several months on Mother’s Day, and it was again, a reminder that we operate under the theory of assumed static.

  3. Overall, there is a world of last times that I try not to spend too much time in, but the idea of ends still haunt me.

Life is short, and there are no guarantees. I really am not one to spout platitudes that we all know!! But man, it’s hard to remember sometimes. …

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