I'm feeling bad about going massively off-topic at https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/C5T9GPWFL/p1545412360017100?thread_ts=1545387390.005400&cid=C5T9GPWFL and below. Particularly since Slack threads are flat. So I'll demote myself here at #C5U3SEW6A. This is super resonant to me: "For twenty years, we’ve been making corporations rich by buying into standardization and scale — making it feasible for them to funnel us into silos. We can stop this process, and perhaps even reverse it.. Personal software should be personal: it should not scale or conform; it should chafe at strictures the same way you do, and burst out of any box that dare enclose it." -- John Ohno (http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2018-12-21_Free-software-and-the-revolt-against-transactionality-3a44a1b7f96d.html) (/cc @Bosmon in case this side was one of the things you wanted to reply to in the earlier thread.)

Oh, I just came across John Ohno’s stuff yesterday while researching Named Data Networking. It’s very relevant to this audience—and he actually spent several recent years working on the modern iteration of the Xanadu project! Relating to that particular excerpt, I also (after many years of recommendations) finally started reading James C. Scott’s “Seeing Like A State”, which seems to be at least partly about how governments and other large organizations tend to manifest a homogenizing pressure in order to make the world manageable to them, losing vital local knowledge and diversity in the process

Great summary of Scott. As it happens, I mentioned Scott here a few days ago: https://futureofcoding.slack.com/archives/CC2JRGVLK/p1545185105115300?thread_ts=1545141138.109900&cid=CC2JRGVLK

If only someone had told me that Seeing like a State was about building data models!