Takeaways:

• In Rochester, New York, missing trash pickup can be a real wake-up call for everyone.
• Invisible systems in modern life, like trash collection, can teach us valuable lessons about convenience.
• When we rely on systems like trash pickup, we often forget how crucial they are until they fail.
• It's fascinating to think about what other systems we take for granted every day without realizing it.

Links referenced in this episode:

• jamesabrown.net
• 585-37-1886

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.