TL;DR: Asynchronous communication through high-fidelity mediums like issues and chat eliminate the endemic “you had to be there” aspect of most corporate workflows, and reduces the need for a dedicated management class to capture, collect, and shuttle information back and forth between business units.
HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social - There was a stretch when Elon Musk took over twitter and started charging for blue checks (lmao) and some of his sycophants started talking about “Veblen goods.”
A Veblen good is something for which demand increases as price increases, in contact to the neoclassical orthodoxy that demand decreases axiomatically with price.
Veblen goods are things that rich people buy to signal their wealth and status. Jewelry, fancy watches, yachts, Ivy League degrees. Things that cost many thousands or millions of dollars.
The idea that an $8 verification on twitter would ever be a status symbol for the rich was fucking ludicrous.
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RT @tomayac: The Gift of It's Your Problem Now, by @apenwarr. Really insightful post on the way open source works and how it doesn’t.
Reminder that is an amazing resource
Future of Programming - Rise of the Scientific Programmer (and fall of the craftsman)
RT @VentureVillage: "Hipters don’t start companies, committed founders do": Opinion piece on the Berlin Hipster stereotype @6Wunderkinder
RT @Cennydd: Another fascinating analysis of the mobile market from @ppk - thoughts on the Facebook/Opera rumour.
“How does Contenture work?
People want to support the sites they depend on. Contenture makes this possible. Contenture users pay into the system, their money is distributed to the Contenture-enabled sites that they visit. The more visits to a site, the bigger slice of the pie that site receives.
Sites automatically know that you are a part of Contenture when you visit them, and they take care of you. Since you are financially supporting that site, they might tack on an extra gigabyte of storage, pull the ads, give you access to the archives, etc. You get a better internet, and you are directly contributing only to the websites that you use.”