The world is cool

Hello!

Just a few links for you today. I spent much of the weekend reading, finishing Dune for a book club this afternoon. I realized that most of the books I’ve finished this year have been thanks to that book club—friendly social pressure, it works!

• Mita Williams recorded a Jane’s Walk talk on Windsor, Ontario’s electrical grid (Jane’s Walks!), shared via her ever-interesting University of Winds newsletter.
• Design Patterns for Mental Health – the name says it all, and I’m quite a fan. (Shared with me originally by Sam.) In particular, I’m thinking about the “Design for poor internet connection” pattern – still all too common in Canada, even in urban areas, but especially in rural areas.
• A rocket came down, which has me thinking of space junk, which has me thinking of Kerbal Space Program, a game I first played over nine years ago, in which you create a lot of space junk. Early versions of the game were not very computationally efficient, and you were incentivized to not overload space with junk, because otherwise your gameplay slowed to a laggy crawl. If only overtaxed common resources had quite the same influence in reality.

Anyhow, time to go listen to some very wholesome StatsCan census playlists and the 1971 JINGLE from this CENSUS INFLUENCER’S KIT (via Courtney). Regarding both of these: WHAT IS THE 21^ST CENTURY!?

All the best for the week ahead!

Lucas