# 2024-12-02

-   Read [Where to draw the line? - by Gordon Brander](https://substack.com/home/post/p-150515044)
    -   About [[complex systems]], modularity, compositionality, and boundaries.
    -   Not a fan of [[Substack]], but always enjoy [[Gordon Brander]]'s writing on [[systems]] and adjacent topics.
    -   A shame that Gordon canned [[Subconscious]].

-   Note that [[Substack]] has it's short form posts now.
    -   A decent move, a combining of elements of the garden and the stream in one service.
    -   Essentially another walled garden version of what [[IndieWeb]] does.

-   I love using [[spacemacs]] and [[Emacs]].
    -   However, one big negative - I'm always scared to update spacemacs to latest, as well as packages from Melpa.
    -   Pretty much at least one important thing breaks every time that I do, and as I need this for my work, I can't often spare that time.
    -   So I tend to put it off and lag behind.
    -   I imagine there's things I can do that would mitigate the risk and friction - I should look into those.
        -   One simple idea is just to have two version running side-by-side.  I might be able to do that actually, I think there's a flag you can pass Emacs to say where to look for your conf folder.