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Who gets to decide, who carries the cost, and what happens when we question the way things work.
Power is not only institutional. It can be electricity, money, time, skills, safety, access, attention, care, or love. Edward Berlinski’s solar charging project is a reminder to notice the power we already have and ask where it could be useful.
JPACT was my first time addressing a regional committee as an independent resident. It was not my first time learning a complicated system, translating it under pressure, or performing confidence. I got my three minutes. What happened after taught me more.
I did not post on September 11 because I could not find the humanity in repeating a polished remembrance while people around us are experiencing preventable suffering every day. Remembrance should make us more human, not simply more practiced.
We are taught not to reinvent the wheel because rebuilding is seen as wasteful. But if the system was designed for a world that no longer exists, taking it apart may be the most responsible thing we can do.
Big Tech has spent years celebrating disruption, but too often the result is more change for the people doing the work, not better work.
