Francine Casalino Laura on Substack
Software can be rebuilt, because software is a machine. But a software ecosystem is not a machine. It is a living system. When we attempt to rebuild the ecosystem , we’re making a category error. We’re confusing the software for the ecological process unfolding around it.
Gordon Brander • Don't fork the ecosystem
But this isn’t really about the software. It’s about what software promises us—that it will help us become who we want to be, living the lives we find most meaningful and fulfilling. The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and inter
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