Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

27,096 and I might get a little more in today?

7 words away from 3000 words added today, what if I just write "maps!" 7 times

working title for this final section of this dissertation chapter: "This isn’t even my final form: Overture Maps Foundation and the post-ZIRP landscape for open source geospatial software"

Look I appreciate you being vulnerable and trusting me with this but being obsessed with the Founding Fathers feels like something you should talk to a therapist about

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dissertation update: I reduced the time Eric and Alex at Mapbox tried to get OpenStreetMap to drop the sharealike clause to a footnote, which feels wrong because it was so funny

another way to spin this: good news, I have two chapters lol

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LMAO I am approaching 20K words for this dissertation CHAPTER about geospatial software in the 2000s-2010s and I am JUST getting to explaining Mapbox, my committee is going to be so annoyed

@namhenderson for this chapter specifically

@namhenderson no more than 30 I guess?

18,035--like pulling teeth today, kind of just hit a hard patch that I have to wrestle with a bit. hopefully tomorrow will be better.

@mjd not as much as I would have liked--hitting a point where the structure needs a little more thought and getting a little stuck there

today's dissertation rabbit hole nightmare was finding a video of Sam Altman in 2008 at WWDC announcing that Loopt would be available in the App Store while wearing a lime green polo layered under a magenta polo

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-140/ this week in sentences: supersede, worryingly short, fonts, around the clock, even dumber, poisoned, rave flyers, oyster is praxis, lederhosen

Real Aliens of The Nostromo

16,650 which is a drop from the streak of the last couple of days because I didn't get started until noon, but it's fine

debating titling the section of the dissertation about geo and ZIRP money "What Was the Geohipster?"

@darius the faster I write the bad sentences the sooner I can do the good sentences