principles

disclaiming

to be honest confidence either

  1. generic as to be empty signaling, or
  2. or so overboard as to really lay bare some undercooked philosophizing.
when working in tech (professionally or just for fun) always has been and increasingly neccessary, to make clear some basic principles:

for creative interests I can be reckless and speak freely. you can read about my approach to music. professionally, my work is stuck in a field not spared of ongoing political turmoil. for a bit of framing, there's a glut of think piece / manifesto thought leaders in software engineering culture online. that is, to frame yourself as the center of some online space, requires you to be insane. in the long tech boom Ellul not even an anti-manifesto. just the basic facts that make up my approach to engineering. the simple understanding that (really for anyone that might be reading this), computers are a part of the infrastructure of our civilization. really for any reasonable definition of computer that is true. take inspiration from the idealists that can remain rooted in reality, but remain purely in the world of current conditions and respond with pragmatism. that my type — socially under-cooked, excited by problems so far removed from any center of a zeitgeist that the power of the industry is held by very few, those few current holding yes, of course it sucks to exist in the popular imagination in this space. the stunted second-order effects of this are equally : a symbol can be pulled out of the world of concepts and we continue to play out the same kind of polarity that was baked in to the start, going all the way back to the John's mathematics of unfeeling models his game theory political manuevering of Johnny to the social-cybernetic Norbert. that what wins out in the end is good engineerng. sharing experience, but not

take care, it's a desert out there...

Jack