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"Very rarely, I find an article that I want to share, but whose every line so
so perfect that I can hardly bear to summarize it because I just want to repost
the whole thing, peppered with “HELL YEAH”s. That’s how I feel about Anil
Dash’s “That broken tech/content culture cycle.”
https://anildash.com/2022/02/09/the-stupid-tech-content-culture-cycle/
Dash lays out a playbook for firms that claim to be “tech companies” but rely
on cultural production to grow and profit — a playbook that we’ve seen used so
many times that it’s impossible to credibly call what emerges from it an
“unintended consequence.”
As Ian Fleming wrote: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times
is enemy action.” If you follow a playbook that has led to series of dumpster
fires, you can’t credibly claim to be surprised when you end up presiding over
a dumpster fire of your own."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
