anthrocypher

anthrocypher, 19 hours ago to random

It’s not that the bits and wires and servers and interfaces of the web can’t still be used for wonderful outcomes in our everyday lives.

It’s that we’ve been pulled so far away from these fundamentals that they feel alien and unrecognizable.

It’s like the sense memory of it has left our bodies. It’s like forgetting the mother tongue.

anthrocypher, 2 days ago to random

What if perpetually mending what is perpetually broken is the job of this work, and also this life?
https://botsin.space/@computerfact/112502531425436169

anthrocypher, 8 days ago to random

Shoutout to that time I was hired into one of the least respected and legible professions in tech and could only see its potential meaning and magic and spent well over an entire decade creating rigor, methods, and definition around it because I am an extremely stubborn masochist.

anthrocypher, 9 days ago to random

Consensus building takes an extraordinary amount of labor.

anthrocypher, 13 days ago to random

Really excited to attend my first PyCon.

What should I know?

anthrocypher, 13 days ago to random

One of the things that was really exciting for approximately 20 minutes (aka 2021-2022) was an understanding and embrace of developer experience as a form of accessibility, especially in an open source/public dev tools context.

anthrocypher, 18 days ago to random

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?

anthrocypher, 21 days ago to random

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, 21 days ago to random

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, 21 days ago to random

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

anthrocypher, 28 days ago to random

“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, 1 month ago to random

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

anthrocypher, 1 month ago to random

Probably the most perfect trip hop track ever produced.

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

anthrocypher, 1 month ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

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

anthrocypher, 1 month ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

The more I write, the more respect I have for people who conjure whole-ass books

anthrocypher, 1 month ago to random

It’s like late-stage capitalism is operationalized incuriosity

anthrocypher, 1 month ago to random

So much comes down to one very simple question:

Are you growing with people or are you extracting from them?

anthrocypher, 1 month ago to random

Relatedly, I’ve been thinking a lot about maintenance work. It’s a completely different mode than the production of something new.

It's a matter of diving into an existing situation and untangling it.

After years of open source constituency management, where I'm incentivizing people to work with one another's code, I have some ideas about what makes it so tricky…
https://hachyderm.io/@anthrocypher/112191630639655941

anthrocypher, 1 month ago to random

"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, 1 month ago to random

Grappling with the strange realization that I'm running a social good business.

“Help internet age companies figure out how to give their constituents a better deal, and how to get better returns because of it.”

So simple a premise, so complex an implementation. And so entirely shaped by the reality that we need to account for the commons.

anthrocypher, 1 month ago to random

In an age where gen AI makes it much cheaper to produce code, the ability to read, comprehend, and review code becomes that much more crucial.

Until and unless businesses and executives recognize this, they won’t actually be able to realize the economic upside of AI because they’ll be too busy creating so many fires which need putting out.
https://cute.is/@keith/112191562540684140

anthrocypher, 1 month ago to random

I have a core of compatriots who are trying to make our industry more rigorous, visionary, and kind.

And what I’ve realized in recent weeks is we're all out here working to explicate what’s made our species successful from first principles BECAUSE WE HAVE TO.

anthrocypher, 2 months ago to random

We have to stop wasting time on ‘community.’

Software that wins builds movements: people learn to succeed in new ways, and work together to become new versions of themselves.

This doesn’t have to be an accident!

I've been at this for 13 years, and part of why I went independent is that most orgs just don’t think in these terms.

It's been such a blast finding the emerging leaders who DO

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