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

anthrocypher, to random
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It’s like late-stage capitalism is operationalized incuriosity

anthrocypher, to random
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So much comes down to one very simple question:

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

thomasfuchs, to random
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Thread:

🌞 HOW TO SAFELY VISUALLY OBSERVE THE SUN 🌞

🤕 PEOPLE GET HURT every time there's an eclipse because they don't follow safety advice. Including permanent eye damage or blindness.
✅ ALWAYS USE A PROPERLY RATED HIGH-QUALITY SUN FILTER OR FILM. No exceptions. Even when the sun is only visible 0.01%.
🔭 The filter always goes IN FRONT of all optical elements, aka on the opening of the telescope; NOT on the eyepiece.

anthrocypher,
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@thomasfuchs This thread is some really important public service. Thank you Thomas!

anthrocypher, to random
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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,
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Maintenance requires negotiation. Effective negotiation requires depth of context as a precursor to empathy. Context requires focus. Focus requires enough well-being that one can become absorbed.

“Emotional labor" is a decent wrapper for it.

anthrocypher,
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Again, the exact moment when code review is becoming more necessary than ever, thanks to gen AI, is also a moment where industry respect for emotional labor is at an all-time low.

Until code review and maintenance is valued properly, businesses are actually kneecapping their own ability to realize the economic benefits of AI.

grimalkina, to random
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Cursed-but-good book proposal idea -->

Causal Inference for People With Feelings: a combination statistical textbook and trauma-informed research manual and triage cookbook for people who need to do good math in real world situations of immense disparity, adversity and enormous pressure to create change while you were trained in a grad program that is now woefully out of date with modern stats and all your stakeholders could either be allies or enemies for the population whose data you hold

anthrocypher,
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@grimalkina shut up and take my money

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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Generating code is cheaper than ever

but we know typing was never the hard part

Reviewing the code, making sure it does the right things, integrating it into the larger constraints of the codebase, that's where all the grownup work happens. There's no magic machine for it.

What's the plan? I think it needs to be discussed.

If you agree:
https://www.uploop.dev/event

anthrocypher,
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It's like the idea of a social contract is passé.

Companies cheerfully enjoy years of third-party labor, then run away with the fruits on a whim.

It's not a sustainable path forward for anyone. Without a little reciprocity, there's no incentive to invest our time and energy in pushing software forward.

The entire ecosystem suffers. Low trust is a brake on progress.

Let's talk about it:

https://www.uploop.dev/event

anthrocypher,
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Honestly I've been blown away by the insight and enthusiasm here.

If y'all keep showing up to play, I might just have to do this…

If you want to tip this over the edge, be sure and tell a friend.

https://www.uploop.dev/event

anthrocypher,
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The magic of the internet, and the human creation it enables, hasn't gone anywhere. It's the very thing that enabled staggering levels of tech wealth the last 15 years.

It also doesn’t show up in spreadsheets.

Firms today are staring laser-eyed at quarterly reports, wondering why the money isn't coming the same way.

Failing to invest in extended constituencies is leaving us all poorer.

I think we should talk about it:

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

danilo, to random
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I grew up around gambling addiction and innumeracy, which are not the same thing but a frequent comorbidity would not surprise me

I also grew up around SimCity, which inoculated me against the innumeracy at the level of budgeting and cash flow.

So what was left over was an appetite for calculated risk.

I think if you’re in a shitty situation, you should figure out what it takes to roll the dice and get out of it

If it won’t ruin you, you should jump

anthrocypher,
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@davidcelis @danilo I’m both extremely happy for you and fucking mad that “they didn’t treat me like they wanted me to go away each time I opened my mouth” was all it took

anthrocypher, to random
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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.

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