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Parties are a public service, you’re doing people a favor by throwing them. Someone might meet their new best friend or future lover at your gathering. In the short term, lovely people may feel less lonely, and that's thanks to you. In the long term, whole new children may ultimately exist in the world because you bothered to throw a party. Throwing parties is stressful for most people, but a great kindness to the community, so genuinely pat yourself on the back for doing this.
21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties
Uri
A challenge with big projects is that what you're working on locally is often only loosely connected with the big creative context. And you need both local and global creative contexts – perhaps very different – and to understand clearly how they relate. It's a lot of work, especially since the local creative context needs to change all the time!
Notes on Creative Context
Michael Nielsen
Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contribute to a knowledge commons in order to be able to succeed in case of [infrastructure collapse](https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html/collapse.html). The practice of engaging with the discarded with an eye to transforming what is exhausted and wasted into renewed resources.
A Holistic Approach to Computing and Sustainability Inspired From Permaculture.
xxiivv.com
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