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anthrocypher

@anthrocypher@hachyderm.io

Principal, Uploop. Guerrilla researcher. Community systems designer. I turn developer tools into movements.
Ex Stack Overflow, Shapeways, Nodejitsu.
Invested in the deliberate practice of a brighter future. she/they

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One of the places I believe we're going from here is a return to technology being more of an enabler, and less of a reason unto itself.

“Can you wrangle the bits to solve meaningful problems for some humans, perhaps not at terribly large scale?”

feels like, I don't know, an inevitability?

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Online conflict is one of the scariest things about building something that matters in an internet age

but it doesn't have to be.

Pulling from a lot of firsthand experience, I wrote a guide to help leaders make tense moments with extended constituencies more constructive.

https://www.uploop.dev/blog/make-decisions-to-defuse-online-conflict/

anthrocypher, to random
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@hazelweakly @jmsdnns James and I go way back, and FWIW I appreciate hearing about an existing text that corroborates my assertion

anthrocypher,
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@jmsdnns @hazelweakly the internet is wild, but y’all are both great <3

anthrocypher, to random
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For sometimes very good reasons, leaders right now are scared of dealing with extended constituencies. But they're also the only way to build something with outsized impact in an internet age.

I don't love VC-scale businesses for their own sake, but I do love the internet.

anthrocypher,
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Right now, I see a lot of folks who’d like to have 10x returns proactively preventing themselves from getting them because they're trying to maintain control

rather than treating constituent negotiation like a key part of leadership.

anthrocypher,
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@kellogh I speak to that here

https://www.uploop.dev/blog/stop-wasting-time-on-community

anthrocypher,
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@kellogh thanks! and yeah, so much of it comes down to tradeoffs between ceding some amount of control in order to have greater success

anthrocypher, to random
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“Feasting on seed crops"

is going to be my new shorthand for all the extremely short-term practices, and constituency illiteracy

that's dominating so many business and leadership styles lately.

anthrocypher, to random
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About 1/3 of the way through A Wizard of Earthsea, and this is the good shit

anthrocypher, to random
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Probably the most perfect trip hop track ever produced.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/teardrop-remastered-2018/1428684976?i=1428688265

anthrocypher,
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@jimfl I had not, thank you!

In return, you might enjoy FKA Twigs covering Elastic Heart

anthrocypher, to random
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This Harvard Business School paper from Hoffmann, Nagle, and Zhou on the estimated monetary value of open source is kind of an incredible feat.

$8.8 trillion, btw.

That's the estimated value of open source, according to these researchers' excellent work.

https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf

anthrocypher,
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I've talked before about how the most important things don't always show up in spreadsheets (“What IS the ROI of clean water, good soil and breathable air?”)

and how organizations whose purpose is to make money are currently having a harder time making money because they don't/can't measure the non-pecunariary resources they rely on.

So, if all orgs stare at and act on are spreadsheets, they'll eventually deplete those foundational resources enough that their spreadsheets will look worse.

anthrocypher,
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I've also talked about how those of us who see the incompleteness at play are having to create shared language from scratch as part of the massive effort to make the important stuff legible.

In a world where we want everything to be tidily manageable, and it's believed that what's measurable is manageable, quantifying the value of the commons is a really necessary step towards, you know, creating alternatives to it getting plundered.

luis_in_brief, to random
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It's a day ending in -y, so again trying to go with love and not "jhfc how can you not be learning from decades of relevant expertise" but uh... I am straining.

anthrocypher,
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@luis_in_brief truly god’s work

anthrocypher, to random
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This AM I'm spending some time with @dahukanna's talk “APIs: semi-permeable osmotic interfaces”.

It's devastatingly precise and wonderfully interdisciplinary. I’ve rarely seen systems of interaction modeled on this level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqEXAqGZJPw

skinnylatte, to random
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Starting a thread about my life with Cookie, while she’s in intensive care right now in San Francisco. She’s still conscious, but it’s not looking great. Even if she gets to come home I think it’s time to prepare to say goodbye to her.

  1. This was the very first time I saw her.

I was 24 years old. I’d just moved to Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. With the first serious girlfriend I had. We thought it’d be a great idea to get a dog.

I took a pic of the moment I saw Cookie in Damansara Uptown

anthrocypher,
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@skinnylatte I'm so sorry your friend is hurting.

anthrocypher, to random
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A recent conversation with one of my people surfaced two big themes:

  1. We're working toward a world where our leaders take a longer view, and it feels so hard because it is.

Modern business language is designed not to account for the most basic things that make profit possible. That means we're working to weave shared language from first principles. (i.e. “What IS the ROI of clean water, good soil and breathable air?”)

…

anthrocypher, to random
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"Where do we go from here?"

It’s time we answer that together. Every great conversation I've had lately has come down to this question.

So: imagine an invite-only, one week community for our sociotechnical future. Async conversation exploring today’s terrain and tomorrow's ambitions, culminating in two hours of talks.

Interested in this experiment?

https://www.uploop.dev/event

anthrocypher,
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Alright folks, we've got dates.

“Where do we go from here?” is May 20th - May 24th.

An invite-only, one week community for our sociotechnical future. It's on.
https://www.uploop.dev/event

anthrocypher,
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So this event has live conversations. First one to announce: @haubles.

In her day job, Hannah makes sure OSS projects get the bandwidth they need.

I want to talk to her about the complicated human components that technical ecosystems depend on. Through her rigor and clarity about these social dependencies, Hannah is one of the people modeling where I want to go from here.

Still have room for a few more. Apply to join us today:

https://www.uploop.dev/event

anthrocypher,
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We'll also be talking live with @zkat.

In addition to being a seasoned OSS maintainer, Kat runs https://banchan.art, a platform cooperative for artists to sell their work.

In a world optimized for extraction from artists, Banchan is built to cultivate their collective prosperity. Kat is predicting the future by creating it, and I can't wait to hear about the triumphs and challenges in this labor of love.

If you'd like to join us:
https://www.uploop.dev/event

anthrocypher,
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I'm delighted we'll have @dahukanna joining us as well:

Dawn is a computational designer. Wielding mastery of software, hardware, and networks, she models their interactions to empower people.

In a world where our organizations too often keep our skills and abilities constrained to tidy boxes, Dawn's cross-disciplinary practices are a beacon. Together, we'll be exploring computing as a source of creativity and joy.

You don't want to miss this.

https://www.uploop.dev/event

anthrocypher,
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I'm so pleased to welcome @mhoye to the lineup.

Mike spent a decade at Mozilla improving the safety and accessibility of open source communities and holding the org accountable to its ideals.

We'll get to talk with him about tangible practices for enabling global communities of contributors, and what he's learned about advocating for them with senior leaders who might have very different priorities.

Interested?

https://www.uploop.dev/event

hazelweakly, to random
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Any sufficiently advanced systems thinking is indistinguishable from premature optimization

anthrocypher,
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@hazelweakly 🔥

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