Idolatry of gigantism
"Today, we suffer from an almost universal idolatry of gigantism. It is therefore necessary to insist on the virtues of smallness—where this applies."
~E.F. Schumacher,
Small Is Beautiful (1973)
…It is easier to descale a kettle than to descale a culture. And instead, our leaders seem intent on kettling culture.
But we do have to try.
To descale
bloat and information-botox
vs
petit[e] and relevant
just having a look at #smallisBeautiful -- a still underused tag here, but there you are.
you seem to be at your most fired-up here around 0900hrs.
me - using the laptop as a "dinner plate" as well
btw your profile youtube has been pulled
Idolatry of gigantism
"Today, we suffer from an almost universal idolatry of gigantism. It is therefore necessary to insist on the virtues of smallness—where this applies."
~E.F. Schumacher,
Small Is Beautiful (1973)
Every time I hear anything about DHH these days I feel I have to apologise for inviting him to Small Is Beautiful in 2021.
https://small-tech.org/small-is-beautiful/07/
I’m sorry, I didn’t know he was a dollar-store Elon Musk at the time.
What can I say? He duped me with his “small tech” talk, making me think we were talking about the same thing. Which, clearly, we weren’t, because Small Tech is all about inclusivity and a non-colonial approach to designing and developing human-scale technology:
“Small Tech is political through and through. It stands with both middle fingers raised high against Big Tech and capitalism. It’s proudly progressive. Small Tech is the opposite of Big Tech, not Big Tech Light.”
Learn more about Small Technology here: https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology
#SmallTech #BigTech #DHH #apologies #SmallIsBeautiful https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115502864868912851
Every time I hear anything about DHH these days I feel I have to apologise for inviting him to Small Is Beautiful in 2021.
https://small-tech.org/small-is-beautiful/07/
I’m sorry, I didn’t know he was a dollar-store Elon Musk at the time.
What can I say? He duped me with his “small tech” talk, making me think we were talking about the same thing. Which, clearly, we weren’t, because Small Tech is all about inclusivity and a non-colonial approach to designing and developing human-scale technology:
“Small Tech is political through and through. It stands with both middle fingers raised high against Big Tech and capitalism. It’s proudly progressive. Small Tech is the opposite of Big Tech, not Big Tech Light.”
Learn more about Small Technology here: https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology
#SmallTech #BigTech #DHH #apologies #SmallIsBeautiful https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/115502864868912851
Scale
is making us sick.
The scales will
fall from our eyes
when scale descales
rapidly
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#smallisBeautiful
…It is easier to descale a kettle than to descale a culture. And instead, our leaders seem intent on kettling culture.
But we do have to try.
To descale
Scale
is making us sick.
The scales will
fall from our eyes
when scale descales
rapidly
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
#smallisBeautiful
