McFilter: August 2017 Archives

August 28, 2017

Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic. An excellent proposal for a better tech culture, from Allison Parrish.
Decentralize It!. "There’s a whole world of fun potential consumer products that let people do computer things that don’t involve reading ads on Facebook or viewing promoted tweets. No one tells you that, but there is."
Co-op/Capital. Can democratic tech improve your deal-flow?. Interesting slide deck pitching co-operative conversions for startups to their VCs.

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Eliminating the Human. Perfectly capturing something that's bothered me for a while now. Although I totally understand the desire to design human interactions out of everything (given that I'm not great in social/unfamiliar situations myself), I also think that we shouldn't do it. Some of the friction and discomfort is useful for us.
Study of the Week: Of Course Virtual K-12 Schools Don’t Work. See last point...

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