Yep. The tension between reality engineering and existential stakes engineering has been a key theme of tech for some years now, though few have recognized it because the latter gets obscured by tech “criticism” and the most visible efforts are reactionary (waldenponding tech) twitter.com/Aelkus/status/
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About half the agenda of refactor camp this year was reality engineeeing talks/workshops, while the other half was existential stakes engineering. I’ll post an editorialized overview once videos are ready, but take a look at the agenda and titles here refactorcamp.com
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As I said in my closing remarks, this was the best refactor camp ever and it’s going to be hard to top 🙂
If the trend towards multitemporality develops as I expect it to, I think the conversation we had this year will deserve at least a juicy footnote in the origin story
