but looking at just one of their projects is antithetical to harc from Götz' writeup: > Simply building prototypes with prototypes would not be a smart recipe

but looking at just one of their projects is antithetical to harc from Götz' writeup: > Simply building prototypes with prototypes would not be a smart recipe for radical engineering: once in use, prototypes tend to break; thus, a toolset of prototypes would not be a very useful toolset for developing further prototypes. Bootstrapping as a process can thus only work if we assume that it is a larger process in which “tools and techniques” are developing with social structures and local knowledge over longer periods of time. a lot of the ideas, or prototypes, in harc are half finished and or completely abandoned sometimes an implementation's best contribution is the ancillary knowledge gained by attempting or developing also, i think kay's presence is less 'hero worship' and more a reminder of shared goals(o) as well as a default standin Götz's first contribution to a project in the space was to create an animation using cutouts from multiple copies of a picture of kay that were lying around would you call lenna 'hero worship'?(i) (o) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY (i) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna