COColinWright·Nov 18, 2023Submission
ChuckM/CarEarthquakePrep: The "go bag" in my car to be ready for earthquakes
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CarEarthquakePrep
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ChuckM / CarEarthquakePrep
CarEarthquakePrep
This is a description of the "go bag" I keep in my car in the Bay area to be ready for earthquakes.
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3 sourcesThank you for this clarification, I appreciate understanding where you are coming from.
I'm wondering if the ethical compromises you feel/felt ever inspired you to try something to avoid them.
For example, one of the people I knew at Sun was pretty depressed about the sort of crap that went on in tech companies. Her response was to create a company that she felt aligned with her views of ethics. Took her a long time to get to "Raman profitability" but that work was offset by the benefit of knowing that the place where she worked didn't subscribe to the kinds of ethical compromises that make people uncomfortable.
I agree that this sort of advice is less actionable during a crisis, whether it is a pandemic or the Great Recession. Just like it is never helpful to tell someone in a car crash that if they had been wearing a seat belt they woul
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dn't currently be on the way to the emergency room. That said, large unlikely stresses to the system, like the pandemic, tend to "light up" areas of risk[1]. It is why in operations at a tech company you will stage mock outages (with real equipment failures) to be able to "see" whether or not your mitigation processes work and where they can be improved.
I still think it is always good advice to learn from adverse circumstances, regardless or origin, to create additional resiliency in your life. That's how I started figuring out what to put in my "go" back in my car[2]. Looking at disasters that hit the Bay Area and asking myself the question, "Okay, when this hits and I'm in my car somewhere, what will I want to have?"
[1] Using the pandemic as an example, the pathetic capacity for the US to manufacture PPE was not widely understood (visible) until the pandemic.
[2] https://github.com/ChuckM/CarEarthquakePrep
Ok, you pushed me over the edge :-)
See : https://github.com/ChuckM/CarEarthquakePrep
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