some stream of consciousness reactions after reading breaking smart 1) ok so agreed software is revolutionary and eating the world yada
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2 ya this is a subtle blind spot for many old economy types and this series perhaps is the best codification of the implications of the
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hacker ethos for important institutions at a both technically sound and political economy institutions level
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2.1 and not to belabor the obvious but a manifesto of the andreesen over the thiel ian technology meta narrative
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3 yet after 80% through I'm left a bit unsatisfied and honestly think this betrays Silicon Valley blind spots
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4 my first professional ish gig was as a clerk typist at a municipality collecting easily automate able data but the barrier there
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isn't software but institutional inertia, bureaucracy yada argolabs.org/blog-1/2015/7/ kinda obvious abstractly but a bitch concretely
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5 listening to all you "tech types" talk about public institutions is like hearing a fish describe walking on land. Just being real
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