@gregmoore
Missives from the dark forest.
Every member of the household celebrates the start of “cool enough to open the windows” season.
First, An Event Apart ended their amazing conferences and now A Book Apart has closed up shop. I can’t help but feel like the Internet is continuing to become a lesser form of itself.
We need to diversify the kinds of people who make software, the kinds of problems they’re solving, and the philosophies and worldviews that govern how they build. Putting every software creator inside a tiny, privileged bubble that’s awash in VC cash and obsessed with hierarchical status games isn’t going to give us novel, “innovative”, or diverse software that serves the needs of everyone.
- Maggie Appleton, Leaving Elicit
Currently Reading
Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson