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Because infrastructural systems are mostly about nonmonetary benefits to people-their time, agency, comfort, and health-optimizing them for price, much less revenue and profit, misses these important aspects.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainers with thematic portfolios, accommodating diverse maintainers and project sizes, just like the specialized firms of other professionals. I am now ready to try and build one.
Geomys, a Blueprint for a Sustainable Open Source Maintenance Firm
Filippo Valsorda
As David Suzuki notes in The Wisdom of the Elders, the Mayan stories are understood as an ilbal a precious seeing instrument, or lens, with which to view our sacred relationships.
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If the western world has an *ilbal*, it is science.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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