I think often of the practice of doing tech. What are the norms? What is allowed? What is venerated? What is looked down upon? What are we conscious to? What are we working towards? What are we calling design this week?

There is the practice, the actual thing, and then there is all of the stuff around the thing. Vibes, power, resources, spaceholding. I care way more about that stuff than I do the actual practice by this point. The practice is evergreen. I have learned it. There’s not much more to learn by this point. Doing tech, on the other hand, is mutable. It has changed so much over the years. And I believe that understanding its contours is essential to the core of consultative work & value generation.

Put more bluntly, I believe I will have a job in the future based on my ongoing understanding of what it means to do tech.