Takeaways:

• We often take systems like trash pickup for granted until they don’t work, right?
• Invisible systems in our lives can impact us greatly, often without us even realizing it!
• Modern society relies on a tightrope of efficiency, and one misstep can cause chaos.
• Have you ever thought about what other invisible systems we overlook daily?
• Trash day might seem mundane, but it reminds us how much we depend on routine services.

Links referenced in this episode:

• jamesabrown.net

This is the Daily Note.

I'm James A.

Brown.

I got home and found a soaked, windblown filled trash bin sitting at the curb.

Our pickup was late.

This is thankfully uncommon in Rochester, New York, but those green spray painted containers remind me of some of the uncomfortable truths of modern society.

We walk a tightrope of just in time everything.

Turn one lever off and so much could and will go wrong.

Trash pickup is one of those things you don't think about until it stops happening.

Then you notice real fast.

So what do you think?

What other invisible Systems Are we one description away from noticing?

Brown and as always, be well.