Essays and photography from Nat Bennett. Based in Minneapolis.
The problem with saying "technical debt" in these situations is it makes you look unserious. If you use "technical debt" to mean "a problem we didn't realize would be there when we made this decision" it makes you look like you take on debt without reading term sheets.
a particular favorite flower June 9 of this year
Apologies for those of you who do not care at all about American football but once I wrote over 3000 words of notes for myself on this topic, what was I going to do, not post it? We'll get back to the regular nerd stuff next week.
a recent one! May 6
I'm just starting to get stuff out of the garden — we got 2 cucumbers and one pepper and the squirrels got a third cucumber. Picked the first cantaloupe today. On the way: A ton more peppers, cherry tomatoes, eggplant, and at least one more cantaloupe (fingers crossed?).
In this newsletter I'm going to share how I use Capacities to take — and more importantly, to review — my notes, and share a little bit about a larger project that I'm using it to write.
A geranium, I think? May 10, 2025. Man, that trip was just over a year ago? That year had a lot.
another one from Oakland If I've done my research correctly this is Spanish lavender. All over the place in the Rockridge neighborhood. This was probably taken right out in front of the house I lived in there.
It's this uncanny absence of a center, a thesis, an animating theory behind the words on the page that gets to me.
Another one that I'm not sure what they are. This was taken in March 2022, in the evening, somewhere near Bushrod Park in Oakland. Missed last week, so you'll get a catch up e-mail later this week. The heat here in Minnesota has been brutal&
We're not actually that far from pouring oil into a bowl of water to decide whether to go to war.
The greatest CI system in the history of software is once again under active development. Try it today!
You're seeing this e-mail because you signed up for Good Rectangles. I believe this was an experiment in photographing in a studio. I'm mostly never happy with the photographs I take under controlled conditions like that, but I think this one turned out okay.
If you take anything away from this story I think it should be this: When there's a part of your system that's "buggy," it's not a testing problem. The solution isn't more validation. The problem is with the design.