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Jack Rusher
05/14/2022, 6:59 AMThis tweet is a distillation of my position in a long thread that's linked below. It would be nice to hear from some of you in that linked thread, which already features a bunch of FoC-adjacent people.
https://twitter.com/jackrusher/status/1525357409681776640?s=20&t=u0-jN3LMw24VkZJUduvBaQ
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Kartik Agaram
05/15/2022, 2:41 AM
This was super helpful in motivating why funding is an important lens in the idea machines article: https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/CEXED56UR/p1652387749434559?thread_ts=1652387749.434559&cid=CEXED56UR
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Kartik Agaram
05/15/2022, 3:32 PM
What helped me see the light in particular was the phrase, "that offers colleagues/mentors".
For a long time now, I've been moonlighting on the stuff that has the most meaning to me. I justified it to myself as "having agency over my coworkers, the people who give me feedback and may collaborate with me." But how's that been going for me? It's been sinking in lately that the answer is: not great. Institutions can provide a benefit I hadn't appreciated until now: funding acts as Schelling Points to help coordinate people. It's a bit analogous to how prices help transmit information in an (idealized) market to help coordinate production.
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Jack Rusher
05/15/2022, 4:49 PMScenius is real!
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Kartik Agaram
05/15/2022, 5:29 PM
That was good to reread. But it doesn't really emphasize funding? When I've read it in the past I tend to think of funding as a smell, like the companies and universities mentioned. Formalizing a scene often kills it.
I'm reminded now of https://benjaminreinhardt.com/parpa
And whoa, Ben does a podcast called.. Idea Machines!
Kartik Agaram
05/15/2022, 5:38 PM
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Innovation organizations are divas: They want consistent cash flows for inconsistent results.https://benjaminreinhardt.com/parpa
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Jack Rusher
05/15/2022, 6:09 PMScenius is real, but people need to eat. Plus, in the development of new technologies, they need expensive gear.
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Personal Dynamic Media
05/16/2022, 3:25 PMI wonder if we will someday have enough retired programmers with an interest in research that they could get together in a retirement community and produce great things.
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Jason Morris
05/16/2022, 4:13 PMI think there's a market for a virtual retirement home for nerds. ;)
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Denny Vrandečić
05/20/2022, 10:36 PMAmerican software developers retire?
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Kartik Agaram
05/20/2022, 10:40 PM
No deferred retirement plan for this developer.
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Jason Morris
05/21/2022, 6:24 PMMaybe it's both the home and the retirement that are virtual.
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curious_reader
06/15/2022, 1:51 PMHi @Jack Rusher
In the web3 space there is now a growing debate around the term "public goods". Events like these lead the way: https://twitter.com/elamadej/status/1536813414772723712?s=20&t=Vu9qGtIRxglQdmPEUMC6AA
curious_reader
06/15/2022, 1:52 PMGitcoin for example sees open source software as public goods thing.
curious_reader
06/15/2022, 3:19 PMThe idea machines piece which @stevekrouse shared went into a similar direction (public goods funding through crypto)
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06/15/2022, 3:19 PM