Ron Bronson

Anti-anti-systems. Incoming assistant professor of practice in urban tech at University of Michigan. Former head of design at 18F. Still mostly posting ephemera. // ronbronson.design
Joined April 2023
  • When even the most institutionally embedded writers have to triple-check if a citation is real, you know we’re in deep simulation territory. Every decision node now comes with hidden verification cost.
    • I’m sure it’s been commented upon but everything takes me so much more time to accomplish now than it did even seven years ago. The information ecosystem has been sufficiently trashed to the point that every basic task of writing and publishing takes twice as long to complete. And I’m PRIVILEGED.
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  • I feel this in every system I touch. The work didn’t get harder. The environment got noisier, slipperier, slower. Tressie names what we too often ignore: degraded velocity is an integrity problem, not a productivity one.
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