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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6 case in point: public education. The barrier to promothean "personalized" learning isn't a lack of useful software tools but rather
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the other parts of layours network. School days structure, standardized testing and other pastoral sounding public admin stuff
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if tool doesn't really disrupt the dysfunctional order and seed a better one, it's a failure, so I disagree that there is no lack
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ya but dude that's the point. We don't need new tools. We need to pioneers new institutions that ca leverage existing tools
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right. Clearly mlk was a product of the microphone and Augustus of writing. That completely denies human agency in how to use tools
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to some extent that is actually true. See McLuhans analysis of Nixon vs Kennedy. Came down to radio vs TV personality adaptation.
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