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 In a low-diligence culture like the UK – a term I’ll explain shortly – overlaying digital systems (like these smart meters) over the processes of everyday life results not in efficiency or productivity gains, but in just the opposite: compounded failures that take extra time, effort and resource to correct. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/26/smart-meter-rollout-number-faulty-machines-leaps-great-britain Good evening, beloved! It’s time to share some more of #myfavoritethings – this time, Clifford Harper’s legendary “Visions,” circa 1975. These detailed, carefully considered illustrations depict what typical British spatial arrangements — terraced housing, allotments, council estates, etc. – might look like after they’d been reclaimed by autonomist collectives, in some not too distant future, and turned over to participatory decisionmaking and renewable energy. They continue to inspire even now. If I had to identify the actual moment I began thinking about the ideas that would eventually become the book I’m now trying to finish, it was when I first laid eyes on these drawings, in a flat above the ATM on Belvedere Street in the Upoer Haight, in early 1991. I wrote some about Harper’s “Visions” here: https://speedbird.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/antecedents-of-the-minimum-viable-utopia-cliff-harpers-visions-series/ Enjoy! |
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@adamgreenfield that's because diligence and precision is for boffins, and no one here wants to be a boffin, and no one here wants to listen to them (I remember being really struck by that when radio 4 was interviewing my co founder - the interview started as a business one until they found out she studied maths at uni and then it weirdly switched to a boffin interview. It was so weird)
@adamgreenfield ugh I've read the thread and my British side wants to rail against it - but I can't.
@adamgreenfield If you had to guess what might create a low diligence or high diligence culture?