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You win by not playing…

It’s Canada, silly to expect the same standard of civil rights as their southern neighbors.

My guess, based on my own and closely observed experiences, is that you can take a developer’s project history and carve out two pretty distinct categories that have huge significance: (1) projects they are most proud of and (2) projects that have the largest value/impact. I know for myself there is very little overlap in those groups.

The former being dominated by bespoke things that worked better than anything available at that time, but filled a tiny niche: “not using the platform”.

While the latter are the boring things that were built with unexciting bulletproof tools that keep churning and adding business value day after day, year after year: “using the platform”.

How about “Orchestration”?

This is less of an issue than the headline suggests. I worked for a publicly traded US company remotely. The company was based between Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach Florida. It was a roll of the dice each spring if the CFO would pull the trigger on a travel block for about 6 weeks around spring break when flights and hotels were most expensive. Approvals were available for critical projects. It was only ever about not exceeding a quarterly budget number; nothing else.

Tokens are becoming a hard commodity. Subscriptions don’t work with hard commodities. Subscriptions work fine where fixed costs/capital investment are massive and service delivery is negligible. Think car washes and Netflix. The marginal cost of adding an additional subscriber to a streaming platform or a monthly car was membership is negligible. While there was substantial capital investment to generate the models, we are learning that the service delivery cost of tokens is real.

After 3 years in a US public company’s IT department between 2013 and 2016, I had been working in private closely help companies with revenue between $100 and $500 million the last few years. Cashflow to invest in good systems and software, but conscious about investments.

I recently took a consulting engagement with another US public (pink sheets) company and remembered how dysfunctional some software development structures/cultures are.

If you want a bit of irony, look up the Flock CEO’s home address (not terribly difficult). You will see it’s blurred out on Google Maps Street View

My propensity to participate was definitely decreased when I would always see others editing and nitpicking my contributions. The value and character of my contribution was unchanged, but now it was “shared” with someone else who edited it…

Correct, many people get worked up over the idea of the patents that could be in play here; plenty of good reason when that is a consideration. The court has already decided that the existence of a patent or licensing agreement is not relevant; It’s a contract dispute.

Well written. This applies much further than just equity raising startups.

Farmers are not anti-technology, they are against technology that locks them out.

You are spot on, this is why I am conflicted. How I feel does not matter. The net benefit to the company may not be the same as what I see.

It’s an overstatement to call the 2021 incident a “hack”.