Tag: better industry

  • Suzanne Sadedin's answer on Quora

    Just go read Suzanne Sadedin’s answer to “What do scientists think about the biological claims made in the anti-diversity document written by a Google employee in August 2017?” It says most of what you need to know.

  • Firefox fights back

    Source: Inside Mozilla: Firefox fights back

  • 37 Signals Becomes Basecamp

    How strange! It’s not what I’d have thought they’d do. Perhaps my model of S37 is wrong, but would you expect a bunch of hip young(ish) things to want to give up their experimentation and consolidate their energies on a maturing cash-cow? Is this actually a sign that 37 Signals are in trouble? Or that…

  • Bruce Eckel on Grass Farming Update : (Hat-tip Folknology) Michael Pollan talk at TED Update 2 : I wonder, actually, if “grass farming” could be the new “pattern languages”? What I mean is, patterns gave us a new way of thinking about the architecture of large software systems, and in particular thinking about their dynamics.…

  • George Monbiot has a good piece on pursuing the work you want. So my final piece of advice is this: when faced with the choice between engaging with reality or engaging with what Erich Fromm calls the “necrophiliac” world of wealth and power, choose life, whatever the apparent costs may be.