Story! Suradanna and the Sea

Suradanna and the Sea, a novella by Rebecca Fraimow. I loved the world-building, and the sense of time, and how two prickly people relate to each other.

I thought, "I have time to read a short story," and was almost late for work before I realized it's a long story. It was hard to put it down!

Links: We are all trying so hard

bipolar by Sari Sariola, an illustrated zine with adorable little mice that remind me of Leo Leonni.

Still here by Roxani Krystalli.

As a child, I disliked my mother's litany of remembrance. I did not want to live in the archive of pain; I wanted us to be there together, at the breakfast table, with the bowl of yogurt and honey, the radio, with the saints and their name days. My mother, meanwhile, was saying, in her own way, that we were still here, still here, still here.

Coercion versus Care by Maria.

The resources the airline and airport put into care, that is, providing the actual service they’d been paid for, were purposely minimal. The resources available for coercion, that is, the enforcement of compliance by the people ostensibly in receipt of the service, outweighed those for care by at least five to one, going on the number of security guards who turned up.

‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline by James Ball.

One minute you’re doing the downward dog, the next you’re listening to conspiracy theories about Covid or the new world order. How did the desire to look after yourself become so toxic?

Valuing undervalued superpowers by Julia Ferraioli, writing about Being Glue, by Tanya Reilly, an illustrated story/talk.

Every senior person in an organisation should be aware of the less glamorous - and often less-promotable - work that needs to happen to make a team successful. Managed deliberately, glue work demonstrates and builds strong technical leadership skills. Left unconscious, it can be career limiting. It can push people into less technical roles and even out of the industry.

Folks who have shared their stories of reaching Staff-plus engineer roles by Will Larson. Lots of women in the list! Gotta admit, none of them quite sound like the role I want, even though I do want to be (and think I act as) a staff engineer.

Sense of Belonging and Software Teams by Cat Hicks, who does research on what makes software teams work better. "Belonging isn’t just about interpersonal kindness and it isn’t just about individual optimal functioning. Perhaps [it] is about what we owe to each other."

Monotropism, a theory of autism developed by autistic people, initially by Dinah Murray and Wenn Lawson.

Monotropic minds tend to have their attention pulled more strongly towards a smaller number of interests at any given time, leaving fewer resources for other processes. We argue that this can explain nearly all of the features commonly associated with autism, directly or indirectly.

Tunnel Vision: An Unauthorized BART Ride (video) by Vincent Woo. I've watched the beginning of this a couple of times and really want to watch the rest, but have not made time yet.