It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.
The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Finished Internet
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and as…
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Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness
How do you avoid becoming a Brilliant Jerk? Read this article to learn practical tips on communication, honesty and psychological safety.
Giving Altruism a Bad Name
Effective Altruism’s metrics-driven model of philanthropy is elitist, condescending and — most damning of all — extremely ineffective.
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Good engineers are right, a lot
It's an iffy Amazon leadership principle but a great engineering metric
Happiness is a Boring Stack
I can't tell you how nice it is to have software in production on a boring stack. It gives you freedom to do other things.
Serenity and the Myth of "Getting Out the Signal" - Reactor
We want to believe that knowledge will change the world for the better, but it's not always that simple.
The Internet Is a Net Negative
I'm usually an optimist about things. That outlook has served me well in life. It's helped me build open source projects that millions of people use. It's...
The golden mean of design and engineering - The Intercom Blog
For great products to be built, both design and engineering need to be in balance. If you have a super strong engineering team but a weak or underserved design team, you will struggle.
All Those Metrics Bleed Your Obsessions - Aaron Ross Powell
The internet once encouraged us to build entire identities around our weirdest, deepest fascinations. Then metrics and distribution flattened those obsessions into fungible content.
Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together ✸ Software Stewardship Lab
Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.
hey builders and devs in the open social web! just curious about what's the state of burnout and bus factors within both the fediverse + atmosphere ecosystems, so feel free to chime in the forums or replies: discourse.atmosphere.community/t/the-state-of-burnout-and-bu…
The state of burnout and bus factors in the open social web
discourse.atmosphere.communityThe Internet, and how we've developed with it
Not "doomscrolling has killed our lives". But how, looking back, our enjoyment of the internet has shaped our experience of life.
We can have a different web
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
VC&G | » My memories of what life was like before the Internet
Habbo Hotel Memories - Sneer Campaign
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My old SoundCloud page is a time capsule
