This process of ossification is correlated with the value stream that software is protecting or generating.
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Every dumb thing in large enterprise software stacks is to make software less like software. Every layer adds a defense from error propagation. Those same layers make software more like physical machines. Less infinitely scalable.
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Complexity and elaborateness sell precisely because they fuck up software and more abstractly, the creative process. It’s GOOD. Because the value proposition is clear. No more creativity needed.
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Many people are deeply afraid of not capable of being creative. I believe people instinctively have a sense that this is fake and anti-self because we are naturally creative.
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The degree to which our non-creativeness is exposed is the public showing of the degree to which we have sold out. (We all have, in some form)
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Wanting to be creative is the most common sign and red flag that the person or company has no idea how creativity works. (Same for “coolness”)
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They’re looking for something that can’t be found. A bird asking for what kind of rock to add to its bag that will finally allow it to be free.
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A lot of the dissonance in silicon valley now is feeling that creativity and coolness should always be tried to economic prosperity.
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Truth is, the starving artist story historically is much more true than the steve jobs story.
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I’m just starting to realize now that a lot of my anger at the world has come from this dissonance. Money and Status ALWAYS require selling out. You’re hacking the system otherwise, and that loophole will be closed eventually.
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