alec @alec@refactorcamp.org

How familiar are people with carbon capture in soil?

This talk got me started down this really interesting rabbit hole:
"Its all about the Soil" by Peter Segger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aLh2JQMsGQ&index=3&list=PLiuWPYOwy1js_pz9rM5lL4AvE3nT2sTW7

#petersegger #soil #carbonfarming #regenerativecultures #regenerativeagriculture #holisticlandmanagement #permaculture #biodynamic #anthropocene #schumacher #buckminsterfuller #ecosystems

Great Transition Ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=344&v=b9yGP_I9pOM

We can use the principles and patterns underlying stable, healthy, and sustainable
living systems as a model for economic-system design.
http://capitalinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015-Regenerative-Capitalism-4-20-15-final.pdf

#heyfeedfox

Does anybody here have any resources on billing models for custom software development agencies?

"Because our enemy is not piracy, our enemy is not someone that is going to steal our idea. Our enemy is Obscurity. That we are not known and not trusted. But if we are trusted for the right reasons, you have more leverage than ever before." - Seth Godin

"How can I get more confidence? [...] I think its the wrong question. Because as soon as you ask that question, you are viewing the world as a threat. You are viewing yourself as inadequate.
[...] The right question is: How can I be more generous?
[Then] we get out of our own head, and we have the chance to live in a connection economy, that's based on abundance. Abundance of information, abundance of trust.
As opposed to an industrial economy that's based on scarcity. " - Seth Godin

Debugging insight of the day:

Focus on solving the problem, not the mystery.

There is a trade-off between deep understanding and fast problem solving.

When deadline looms, don't nerd-snipe yourself and keep a flexible mind, focused on the problem.

Are Silicon Valley's valuations a symptom of unevenly distributed hyperinflation?

Calling all armchair & real economists:

What are your thoughts on quantitative easing and the state of the US Dollar?

So turns out I can boost my own post, but when I delete the boost the original post gets deleted -.-

"The Design is the Implementation"
https://danshumway.com/blog/design-is-implementation/

talks about a powerful idea that i have been intuiting aswell.

the aesthetics of your data model do matter if you want your app to have interactions that feel right.
i feel this is one of the bridges to alexander, this is what will make software feel alive rather than dead. #LivingStructures #Qualitywithoutaname

@vgr
Various communal living forms on a gradient from "practical community" to "intentional community" fit your request:

Flat-shares, co-living, student housing cooperatives, frat houses, eco-villages.

Pragmatic, ideology free, flat-shares are really common, even post-university, in Germany at least.

@scottwerner @jamescgibson
Yes I also feel like what has persisted from the GoF book in programmer lore (I haven't read it) has really nothing to do with what Alexander is talking abiut

I found Richard P. Gabriel whilst researching the concept of "habitable code", which seems to fit my intuition about what makes for good code.

A codebase should be views as Living Structure not as a exercise in High Modernism.

“We need to
learn how to write software “before” we worry about development methodologies —using principles and approaches of a fine arts education in creative writing”
https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Triggers&Practice.pdf

“Patterns of Software” explores the work of the architect Christopher Alexander as it relates to the creation of software.
https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf

@vgr

Now I think that the only thing that can be done is to fix one's owns pathologies. This should eventually lead to being properly aligned with one's self. Thereby being able to offer one's own vulnerable sides and giving loving attention to the difficult person without any ulterior motives.

This creates a situation in which the person feels actually seen and can finally "quit the bullshit".

Call it "metta", "not being in the box" or "unconditional positive regard".