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Tilde Co-Founder, OSS enthusiast and world traveler.

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    1. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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      Because ideologies get cargo culted and turned into taboos and totems, these fixed point ideologies can easily become permanent 13/

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    2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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      Even long after the point on the spectrum had changed significantly 14/

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    3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
      Replying to @wycats

      In addition, the ideologies may result in an unwillingness to try to move the needle yourself, even if it's rational to do so 15/

      1 reply 3 retweets 4 likes
    4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
      Replying to @wycats

      So it's important to treat these ideological shortcuts as shortcuts, requiring regular revalidation 16/

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
      Replying to @wycats

      It's also important to realize that ideologies can combine into larger point-in-time ideologies 17/

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    6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
      Replying to @wycats

      For example, a lot of 2000-era meta-ideas about open source governance were based on ideological shortcuts 18/

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
      Replying to @wycats

      "You can build an issue tracker, but it's hard" "You need a mailing list for communication" 19/

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    8. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
      Replying to @wycats

      "It's hard to verify that releases work, so we should release slowly after long verification and QA" 20/

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    9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
      Replying to @wycats

      That led to the idea that open source projects need to be housed in large foundations 21/

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    10. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
      Replying to @wycats

      These ideas made sense at the time (running a CI server for a utility library would have been a ridiculous waste of resources) 22/

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      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016

      But it's important to retain the original chain of reasoning for the ideology ("OSS projects should use infra provided by a foundation") 23/

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        2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          By retaining (or recovering) the chain of reasoning, we can periodically check whether the costs are still worth the benefits 24/

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        3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          To be clear, the OSS example is just an example. There are many more. 25/

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        4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          In practice, instead of remembering that ideologies are fixed-point-in-time shortcuts for a given tradeoff 26/

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        5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          And that derived ideologies are on even more brittle ground 27/

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        6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          Instead, we form tribes around the ideologies that actively resist revisiting the rationale 28/

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        7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          And instead of treating derived ideologies as especially suspect (the more derived the more suspect) 29/

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        8. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          We treat them as litmus test for membership in our tribe 30/

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        9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          None of this means we can't adopt shortcuts for the current state of things 31/

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        10. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          In fact, it's important that we are allowed to do so in order to avoid our entire life becoming a series of meta-debates 32/

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        11. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          But we should treat them as shortcuts and nothing more 33/

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        12. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          And we should revisit our third, fourth and fifth order ideologies very regularly 34/

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        13. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          There's a good chance that some part of the chain of reasoning will change sooner than you think 35/

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        14. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          The diff between the drag on progress caused by opaque ideologies and the acceleration caused by transparent ones is orders of magnitude 36/

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        15. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          Just like compound interest, the different magnifies and accelerates. 37/

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        16. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          Finally, while tradeoff calculations can change in a blink, human infrastructure cannot 38/

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        17. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          One of the benefits of ideological shortcuts is that you can build more infra around them that lets a society or tribe work productively 39/

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        18. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          But these abstractions, which work beautifully for the fixed point, degrade over time and eventually fail competitively 40/

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        19. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          We need to use these shortcuts to build abstractions, but groups built around them need to revisit them regularly 41/

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        20. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          And then, they must help each other migrate in a way that doesn't cause upheaval and that preserves as much shared value as possible 42/

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        21. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          Change is inevitable, and that makes the process of adapting to in inevitable as well 43/

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        22. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          One approach is to resist ideological shortcuts and examine every problem by doing the full cost calculus 44/

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        23. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          But this is incredibly expensive and isn't competitive with newer groups that operate on relatively recent ideologies 45/

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        24. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          Because they get the benefit of the shortcuts and you don't 46/

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        25. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
          Replying to @wycats

          Instead, we have to 1. create shortcuts but remember their chain of reasoning 46/

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        26. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          2. Try to predict how likely a given assumption is to change, and don't build too many shortcuts on top of it 47/

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        27. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          3. Build communities on top of the more stable assumptions 48/

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        28. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          4. Revisit the primitive assumptions regularly, and when they change, revisit the derived shortcuts 49/

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        29. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          5. Have a process for migrating your community towards the new, relatively stable assumptions, before competitiveness suffers too much 50/

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        30. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          People often forget that this process has no end, and accept opaque ideologies that match the current fixed point in time 51/

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        31. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 12 Apr 2016
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          But the process is destined to repeat, again and again and again. 52/

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