
Deb Chachra is mostly not here
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Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS + engineering professor. She/they. Also @debcha elsewhere: AT bsky.social, AT saturation.social, Instagram.
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I'll be mentioning a lot of pathbreaking work by others including Deb Chachra is mostly not here Michał A. Dzieliński Kai Gehring MatteoGrigoletto David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social liz chatterjee Dave Alff Matthew Connelly @wgthomas3 among many others

Deb Chachra is mostly not here Michał A. Dzieliński Kai Gehring MatteoGrigoletto David Armitage 🇺🇦 davidrarmitage.bsky.social liz chatterjee Dave Alff Matthew Connelly @wgthomas3 Here it is youtube.com/watch?v=pMz8US…

As Deb Chachra is mostly not here writes in her must-read 2023 book *How Infrastructure Works*, infrastructure is a gift we give to our descendants. Infrastructure projects rarely pay for themselves during the lives of the people who decide to build them: pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/car… 27/

Join SloanPublic author Deb Chachra is mostly not here & Austin Kleon in City of Austin as they discuss her new book "How Infrastructure Works," about how essential utilities function, how much we rely on them & the consequences of systemic neglect More details here: austinkleon.com/2024/05/31/im-…

"Optimization presumes a kind of certainty about the circumstances one is optimizing for, but that certainty is, more often than not, illusory." — Mandy Brown, going on to cite Deb Chachra is mostly not here below. aworkinglibrary.com/writing/agains…


HOW #INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS @pengunusa by #MA #author & Olin College's Deb Chachra is mostly not here is a #massachusettsbookawards #nonfiction #longlist. Addresses the invisible systems that support us. See: ow.ly/nWpp50SgWOS #STEM #CenterForTheBook Massachusetts Library Association 📚 MBLC New England Independent Booksellers Association


Developing various, superior systems can help us transform existing materials into something new, writes Deb Chachra (Deb Chachra is mostly not here). untappedjournal.com/issues/issue-1…


As #UKElection nears, kudos to Faber Books for inviting authors to select books that speak to the times. Pleased to nominate Deb Chachra is mostly not here's fine book on infrastructure from Torva Books faber.co.uk/journal/keyiss…


With @jenn_rossmann, Deb Chachra is mostly not here calls for viewing infrastructure as a public good that contributes to health and well-being—but that doesn’t change the fact that investing in infrastructure is a clear form of economic stimulus. buff.ly/466ZDul


When someone asked Deb Chachra is mostly not here about how you can get kids to care about infrastructure, her response was that she wants kids to never have to think about it. “I want the grownups to do a good enough job that we all have infrastructure that works well.” buff.ly/469gBrI


Read this amazing Q&A with HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS author Deb Chachra is mostly not here in Public Books! She's so great at encouraging readers to appreciate infrastructure and "boldly envision alternative futures." publicbooks.org/infrastructure…


5️⃣words from … "How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World" by Deb Chachra is mostly not here blog.wordnik.com/five-words-fro… via wordnik @[email protected]


Inspired by Deb Chachra is mostly not here's writing about infrastructure and frailty, I look at the CrowdStrike debacle through the lens of monoculture and polyculture.