California Ideology
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Also known as: Californian Ideology
- Kill Your Gods … my internet circles [12] at least, is famous for this stupendously satire of Californian Ideology technology companies: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus …
- Dark; Forward-Looking Barn Door Statements
- Not Up and To The Right; Just Deeper, Really; Better Wording Faster; Tools for Remembering; A Centaur for Caring?; Of Course They're Art … I like to say that scaling is considered harmful, which is to say that there are certain types of scaling -- namely the Californian Ideology kind -- that are harmful …
- You're The Mayor of Terminal B Airside at SMF Airport! … one of the only reasons why I learned about the Californian Ideology was because I worked with one of its co-authors, the late Andy Cameron and through …
- Division by Infinity … tools are (and should be) considered apart from their users; The Californian Ideology also inherits a bunch of concepts from a related predecessor - the manifest destiny that powered …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … 1.0 The Ideology I used to write quite a bit about the Californian Ideology[0], a sort-of explanation as to Why The Valley Does What It …
- Hello babies; Post-Apocalyptic Duolingo; Recreational Capitalism … to be kind."[2] - everything that I've ever written before about The Californian Ideology (see a whole bunch of newsletter episodes in my archive[3], which archive …
- The Difficult Third Album
- I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos … what do we mean by "technology"? For something like the Californian Ideology, if I were to start making a list of "things that the Californian Ideology counts as …
- Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service … A reader wrote that - if we're being extreme - there's a strain of the Californian Ideology where people aren't just uninteresting but that they're terrifying …
- Manifest Destiny; A Little Bit Desensitized; The Material (2) … Facebook, like a lot of physical protrusions of the Californian Ideology, doesn't believe that you make progress without breaking a few things. That applies - from the outside …
- This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots … This is also, it feels like, a protuberance of the Californian Ideology again. In the world that practically worships a utilitarian view of ethics, it doesn't matter …
- Taking Stock; And The New … 1.1 The Californian Ideology It took a while, but one of the early themes that emerged was that of the Californian Ideology. That phrase has become a …
- Engineering Serendipity; Genuinely Useful People Personalities; Hubris … But I guess the promise of the Californian Ideology is this time, things can be different, and that if you deploy the right code in the right place …
- (Re-send w/formatting fix) Episode Ninety Eight: Engineering Serendipity; Genuinely Useful People Personalities; Hubris … But I guess the promise of the Californian Ideology is this time, things can be different, and that if you deploy the right code in the right place …
- That Most Killer Of Deals; Need To Know … and when you don’t?"[2] There is, as ever, a bit of Californian Ideology seeping through here. This is pure utility-by-algorithm, if only we let …
- Continued Disruption; Snow Crashing (7); Edge of Tomorrow … The fears of the left, in opposition to the Californian Ideology, are that software will eat the world in service of its capitalist masters, that it will promise …
- Cities; Disruptive; Still Brittle … This is part of what I mean in terms of my critique of the Californian Ideology. Moore's law has been great at disrupting the pointy, top-end …
- The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS … to do with Responsive OS and it has everything to do with the Californian Ideology. At this point, what I'm reacting to, is that Airbnb and Uber …
- Apple and Nike; Critiquing Everyone Deserves Great Design; Odds … Noursalehi's manifesto is a sort of extension of the Californian Ideology in the same way that we saw with yesterday's manifesto from Undercurrent. It draws from …
- On Design; New Aesthetic Zeitgeist Bingo; Odds … But perhaps this is also where culture plays a big part, and is part of my criticism of the Californian Ideology: I think my position is that good …
- Computer Says No, Snow Crashing … still a screed against capitalism, I think, but also firmly planted in the Californian Ideology of technology saving the day) plot. It's an interesting perspective to see …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … Perhaps instead the Purpose is just the reflection of those who "got" the concept of software eating the world first - that the Californian Ideology adherents of Kevin Kelly …
- Internet of Poor People; Re-introductions; Odds … of actually sitting down and having a clear enough head to assess the pros and cons is, in Californian Ideology terms, a *tax imposed on the consumer*. It …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … assertion of Jefferson's property ownership as a direct root to the current Californian Ideology. Now, whether that's fair or not is a side point for the …
- Challenge / Response (3) … likelihood something will happen where I will be inclined to rail against the Californian Ideology, again, because, well, they just ask for it. Happy Monday, I hope you …
- Humane Technology; They Shoot Jobs, Don't They; On Depression 1.0 Humane Technology I am still preoccupied with the Californian Ideology and what, ultimately, technology is good at, versus what we wish technology were good at. Chris …
- On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts … The model that *appears* to be espoused by Schmidt and his Californian Ideology colleagues is one of perpetual, economic-version-of-rational and ceaseless opportunity of productivity. Need …
- Numbers; Performance and Practice; The Kessler Run In Over 12 Billion … The ramifications of this - again, because of the kind of raving that you get from the Kessler contingent of the Californian Ideology (see below) - bear untangling. 2.0 …
- That Most Peculiar Thing, Cargo Cultism, That Californian Ideology … 3.0 That Californian Ideology I'm still angry at Kessler. I'm still angry at American Exceptionalism, even though I can read it as inspiring and noble …
- Only Connect; They Stole Our Revolution; Policy As Code; Dance Central … And he introduced me, embarrassingly, to Barbrook and Cameron's critique of the Californian Ideology[2, 3] - the very least of which because I spent close to a …