🔗 I just think that people who write about technology should have a disclaimer about the tech stack they use. .. writes Doug Belshaw.

He’s talking about Carol Cadwalladr. And so any excuse to push 🖇️her recent Ted Talk back into the timeline. I’m in. Trust me - if Adolescence is worth 4 hours of your time, because it is neccesary viewing (🖇️ it is), then Carol’s Ted Talk is definitely worth 15 minutes - and the RoI is waaaay higher.

Back to Doug - I get what he’s saying - but this stuff is not black, nor white - and very very grey. AND, I don’t like the thought police injecting their opinions into society - whoever the thought police represent.

Whilst complaining about her use of Substack and Blusky (not so bad - given that she could be using Facebook and Twitter - crap spaces that most people know are crap, shrug their shoulders and move on), the subtleties of why those two spaces aren’t ‘pure’ will be lost on the majority - but her message stands a better chance of getting through.

I’m no technical genius but I read. I get it. But were such disclaimers made - what are we meant to do?

Rather than wringing our hands and complaining - shouldn’t we be making the alternatives easier to access and use and understand? Because nobody seems to do that. Nobody seems to build on - they just look at something and inwardly tell themselves that can build a better foundation, to start from. History and lessons be damned.

And it isn’t just tech - try counting the swarms of sales and marketing, coaches, mentors, new systems, free books all preaching how they have ‘unlocked the secret to … which any pro in the business has known and worked to for years.

@Dave Winer is on a ‘mission from god’ on ‘interop’ - he’s pushing Bluesky. He wants Substack to be more open to his writing tools, he’s also working with @manton and #Wordpress … who else is pushing that kind of collaboration (stands back and waits for the deluge of - wait - you clearly don’t know shit - you have forgotten …) .. and yes - I don’t know shit - I am just relaying my person observations. Talking of which …

Me channeling me from three years ago …

80% of people who use the 80/20 rule have no data to support their thesis …

What We Have What We Need