Hart of the Wud

@mhoye Some readings that might be helpful:
- Ursula Franklin - The Real World of Technology
- Olia Lialina (@GIFmodel) - Turing Complete User
- Femke Snelting (@Femke) - Awkward Gestures
- Maybe Friedrich Kittler - "Protected Mode" or "There is no Software"
- The Permacomputing WiKi - https://permacomputing.net/

And there was this paper I read from some management consultants written about 15 years ago that was called something like "Why the majority of software projects fail." A really good empirical argument that most of the failures of development occur because the business people can't communicate what they want. Sadly, I can't find it right now.

Like 13 March at 20:36 | Wall-to-wall | Open on post.lurk.org

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tuban_muzuru

@praxeology @mhoye @GIFmodel @Femke

Failed projects sometimes arise from developers who thought they knew better than the business.

14 March at 2:52 | Open on ohai.social

l03s

@praxeology @mhoye @GIFmodel @Femke Close to the machine - Ellen Ullman

14 March at 7:37 | Open on post.lurk.org

Tim Cowlishaw

oh, everything that @praxeology said, plus:

The Boy Kings - Katharine Losse
@npseaver's ethnographic work on recommender systems
The front matter of https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ might be interesting through a kinda critical / historical lens
Ullman's "The Bug" might also be fun (it's a novel, but a very well-observed one, and i bet it'd be very generative of interesting discussion)

14 March at 8:02 | Open on assemblag.es

wakest ⁂

@praxeology @mhoye @GIFmodel @Femke seconding Ursula Franklin, I think she would be a wonderful lens to teach the whole thing thru

14 March at 8:32 | Open on social.wake.st