Going back to the personal dev environment concept, I don’t think people operate very well as individuals. we are not wise. Perhaps the only functioning personal dev environment is a family. If your family relations are fucked, you have little hope as an individual.
One manifestation of how families have been undermined is that people (including myself) often don’t have good mentors/elders that they can trust and listen to. A lot of my mistakes have come from not being able to incorporate the wisdom of people who knew better than me. Some of those mistakes were useful but some should have been avoided.
The people in my life who are the most messed up are usually the most isolated.
I just happened to watch this documentary on Doug Engelbart https://youtu.be/_7ZtISeGyCY?list=PLA7F3A83431B9C10F and "planetary dev environment" resonates with his vision quite a bit. The idea of building protocolized network infrastructure to support problem solving, he basically invented that. The mouse and flashy demos were only in service of this vision of a global OS.
Of course he was from a completely different era, where global governance seemed more plausible and easy. We are in a more anarchic time, and we've also learned that just connecting people up with networks and screens creates just as many problems as it solves.
The low-level architectural ideas from that era lives on in our current protocols (mouse, windows, TCP, etc) but the high-level semantic coordination ideas, well, nobody even remembers what those were all about.
Going back to the personal dev environment concept, I don’t think people operate very well as individuals. we are not wise. Perhaps the only functioning personal dev environment is a family. If your family relations are fucked, you have little hope as an individual.
One manifestation of how families have been undermined is that people (including myself) often don’t have good mentors/elders that they can trust and listen to. A lot of my mistakes have come from not being able to incorporate the wisdom of people who knew better than me. Some of those mistakes were useful but some should have been avoided.
The people in my life who are the most messed up are usually the most isolated.
I just happened to watch this documentary on Doug Engelbart https://youtu.be/_7ZtISeGyCY?list=PLA7F3A83431B9C10F and "planetary dev environment" resonates with his vision quite a bit. The idea of building protocolized network infrastructure to support problem solving, he basically invented that. The mouse and flashy demos were only in service of this vision of a global OS.
Of course he was from a completely different era, where global governance seemed more plausible and easy. We are in a more anarchic time, and we've also learned that just connecting people up with networks and screens creates just as many problems as it solves.
The low-level architectural ideas from that era lives on in our current protocols (mouse, windows, TCP, etc) but the high-level semantic coordination ideas, well, nobody even remembers what those were all about.