This week on my #podcast, I read "Let the Platforms Burn," a recent @medium column making the case that we should focus more on making it easier for people to leave platforms, rather than making the platforms less terrible places to be:
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Think of California's wildfires. While climate change has increased the intensity and frequency of our fires, climate (and neglect by PG&E) is merely part of the story. The other part of the story is #FireDebt.
For millennia, the original people of California practiced controlled burns of the forests they lived, hunted, and played in. These burns cleared out sick and dying trees, scoured the forest floor of tinder, and opened spaces in the canopy that gave rise to new growth.