One of the recurring errors made by people who build things is the assumption that everyone else is engaged in the same basic enterprise. The engineer sees a defective system and asks how it can be repaired; the activist often sees the same defect and asks what moral significance can be extracted from it, who…
Tag: Silicon Valley
Let the Tech Giants Be Gnawed
There is a certain justice in watching the American technology industry discover that the creatures it fed are not house pets. For years, the great platforms imagined themselves extraordinarily sophisticated political actors. They possessed money, data, distribution, prestige, and direct access to the nervous system of public life. They could decide which arguments traveled at…
Antiwork Censorship
I’m all for reforming jobs, offices, and workplace practices. It seemed r/antiwork would be the perfect place to discuss ideas about that and organize with similar minded people. It only took a few days to be banned from r/antiwork. Nothing I said was hostile or inflammatory. My thoughts slightly deviated from their narratives and that…