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  1. George Dorn (gdorn@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2019 22:52:17 EDT George Dorn George Dorn

    I'm starting down the path of applying for full-time jobs with a goal to negotiate down to 30 hours during the offer phase. This follows the advice of Itamar Turner-Trauring, who published a book "You can negotiate for a 3-day weekend". I stumbled across that from a blog article, "What software developers can do about climate change" (https://codewithoutrules.com/2019/09/10/software-developers-climage-change/) at the end of which he gives out a free copy of the book to anybody looking for free time to be activists.

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    1. What can a software developer do about climate change?
      from Code Without Rules
      Pines and firs are dying across the Pacific Northwest, fires rage across the Amazon, it’s the hottest it’s ever been in Paris—climate change is impacting the whole planet, and things are not getting any better. You want to do something about climate change, but you’re not sure what. If you do some research you might encounter an essay by Bret Victor—What can a technologist do about climate change? There’s a whole pile of good ideas in there, and it’s worth reading, but the short version is that you can use technology to “create options for policy-makers.” Thing is, policy-makers aren’t doing very much. So this essay isn’t about technology, because technology isn’t the bottleneck right now, it’s about policy and politics what you can do about it. It’s still written for software developers, because that’s who I write for, but also because software developers often have access to two critical catalysts for political change. And it’s written for software developers in the US, because that’s where I live, and because the US is a big part of the problem. But before I go into what you can do, let me tell you the story of a small success I happened to be involved in, a small step towards a better future.
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