Tiago Forte@fortelabs·Sep 29, 2017I'd love your take on this @vgr. Developer Hegemony uses Gervais Principle as explanatory backbone cc @daedtechQuote TweetTiago Forte@fortelabs·Sep 29, 20171/ My summary/analysis of Developer Hegemony, @daedtech's stunning book on the future of labor https://daedtech.com/book/Show this thread3210
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 29, 2017Replying to @alexqgb @kylemathews and 2 othersI think Gall's Law applies. They happen to find things that can start simple, and scale at a rate that your learning can keep pace with.12
Tiago Forte@fortelabs·Sep 30, 2017Replying to @vgr @alexqgb and 2 othersHow about open source? What makes ambitious software not decomposable into smaller projects? Couldn't internet itself be one?3
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 30, 2017Replying to @fortelabs @alexqgb and 2 othersInternet was not open source, it emerged st the heart of darpa remember. Open source has had some stellar original hits, but generally...1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 30, 2017Replying to @vgr @fortelabs and 3 others...is a late stage re-imagining of an existing category, like unix --> linux, photoshop --> gimp etc 90%, and has no incentives for b2b sw11
Kyle Mathews@kylemathews·Sep 30, 2017Replying to @vgr @fortelabs and 2 othersThat view is a bit dated. Many new large corporate software efforts are open source these days to share dev costs across companies.11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Sep 30, 2017Replying to @kylemathews @fortelabs and 2 othersTrue, but that's more open source going corporate than corps going open source afaict11
Kyle Mathews@kylemathews·Sep 30, 2017Replying to @vgr @fortelabs and 2 othersThe legal/social structures of open source seem pretty durable11
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @kylemathews @fortelabs and 2 othersBut doesn't it like a lot of major new open source things went from proprietary to open source rather than being open source at genesis?5:07 AM · Sep 30, 20171 Like
Kyle Mathews@kylemathews·Sep 30, 2017Replying to @vgr @fortelabs and 2 othersDepends. Some started as internal project then were open sourced. Others intended as open source from the get go e.g. kubernetes11