Extremely long post, eh? I think programmers - good ones at least - like building things, like seeing things go. We care deeply about what we can make in the w

Extremely long post, eh? I think programmers - good ones at least - like building things, like seeing things go. We care deeply about what we can make in the world. We are in a OODA loop, where we put in effort, fix things, and they get better. But often building stuff becomes jammed up, organizationally. There's other people injecting priorities and concerns. There's a whole org, that's utterly dependent on us, that thinks it want things, but don't understand what we are bargaining over, doesn't have the essential capabilities to see the truths, affinities, struggles, and joys we feel. We're on our own island of empathy with products. And the outcome is always so unknown, riding this organization ship. The idea of going out there homesteading speaks, to me, to a desire to have a loop where there's less people injecting themselves. A very recent highlight from Tools for Conviviality (Ivan Illich, 1973) comes to mind, "Survival, justice, and self-defined work. I take these to be fundamental to any convivial society." Via https://bsky.app/profile/gordon.bsky.social/post/3ll5hgh3el225 https://bsky.app/profile/gordon.bsky.social/post/3ll5hgh3el2...