Yeah, I am perfectly comfortable with the nature of sandwichness being ephemeral and contingent, rather than fixed and immutable.
— Deb Chachra (@debcha) January 24, 2020
“This place is a message… and part of a system of messages …pay attention to it!
— Deb Chachra (@debcha) May 10, 2019
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This is like Gandhi’s joke about Western civilization. All of the former colonies the UK pats itself on the back for bringing democracy to should get together and return the favour.
— Deb Chachra (@debcha) March 13, 2019
Yesterday, I gasped aloud when I learned the Inuktitut word for ‘Internet’: ikiaqqijjut, “the tool to travel through layers”. It’s also a nod to how shamans travel in a trance. https://t.co/1blSRzsA8x
— Deb Chachra (@debcha) March 12, 2019
I get grumpy when tech decides it’s not going to worry about ‘edge cases’. News flash: The real world is fractal. It’s *mostly* edge cases.
— Deb Chachra (@debcha) March 1, 2019
My touchpoint is that the Air Force measured many dimensions of lots of people and realised there is no ‘average’ human they could design for—no one was even close to average for all the parameters. It’s why seats are adjustable. We are all edge cases.
— Deb Chachra (@debcha) March 1, 2019
I am unilaterally declaring today, July 5th, Interdependence Day. Today is a day to celebrate our communities, large and small; the systems that we’ve created for the benefit of everyone; and our common resources and environment. And to commit to making them better.
— Deb Chachra (@debcha) July 5, 2018