{"id":890,"slug":"chachra-debbie","name":"Chachra, Debbie","type":"person","created_at":"2026-08-08T04:38:51.155443+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":["Cha, Deb","Chachra","Chachra, Deb","Deb Chachra"],"episodes":[{"id":"1dfa4c26-363e-4e56-afef-de38a6c01b8e","slug":"s21e17-it-was-supposed-to-be-different-reading","subject":"s21e17: It Was Supposed To Be Different; Reading Material","title":"It Was Supposed To Be Different; Reading Material","publish_date":"2026-08-06T00:23:38+00:00","year":2026,"month":8,"season":21,"episode":17,"episode_label":"s21e17","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e17-it-was-supposed-to-be-different-reading/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1689,"context":" … Inside the Systems That Shape Our World\n, by\n<mark>Deb Chachra</mark>\n\nSystems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World\n, by\nGeorgina Voss\n\nCory Doctorow\nhas written a … ","reading_minutes":8},{"id":"73d969f6-a10a-47fc-9c59-0e377c1a381f","slug":"s21e11-somebody-else-s-cloud","subject":"s21e11: Somebody Else’s Cloud","title":"Somebody Else’s Cloud","publish_date":"2026-07-17T02:24:42+00:00","year":2026,"month":7,"season":21,"episode":11,"episode_label":"s21e11","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s21e11-somebody-else-s-cloud/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1683,"context":" … I mean, you\nshould\nbe able to rely on those things and if I borrow from <mark>Chachra</mark>, those things might also fall under the ways we care for … ","reading_minutes":8},{"id":"f1488de1-db96-4729-a480-4fa3ca7fdac4","slug":"s17e09-what-does-it-take-to-trust-the-young-ladys","subject":"s17e09: What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide","title":"What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide","publish_date":"2024-02-13T03:38:55.061867+00:00","year":2024,"month":2,"season":17,"episode":9,"episode_label":"s17e09","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s17e09-what-does-it-take-to-trust-the-young-ladys/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2423,"context":" … Last week’s Hallway Track (009 Infrastructure and Systems with <mark>Deb Chachra</mark> and Georgina Voss) went down a treat.\n\nHere’s what Carl Coryell-Martin Martin had to … ","reading_minutes":12},{"id":"da25dc4c-9c67-47fa-9b55-ce44ca25a8da","slug":"s17e07-the-great-social-network-heist","subject":"s17e07: The Great Social Network Heist","title":"The Great Social Network Heist","publish_date":"2024-02-02T21:49:24.001600+00:00","year":2024,"month":2,"season":17,"episode":7,"episode_label":"s17e07","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s17e07-the-great-social-network-heist/","is_premium":0,"word_count":3696,"context":" … February, at 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, and 7pm London.\n\nOur guests will be:\n\n<mark>Deb Chachra</mark>\n, engineering professor and the author of How Infrastructure Works [\nUS\n/\nUK\n]. 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