Watershed One
Extending from Tools for Conviality Confluence of aligned movements in an alternative direction from late-stage capitalist tech (VC, hustle, grind, burn-our, grow grow grow, IPO, move fast break things, SaaS). Petro-tech? Bold New Tech?
- Crypto and certain sections of Web3
- Muse
- Calm Software, basically normal / sustainable business practices
- Local-first
- Permacomputing
- Sensible Design
- Return to HCD
- “Indie-Capitalist”, melding of builders and users into one
- Certain but not all sections of free software and open source
- Data sovereignty
- Private by default This doesn’t seem to be a singular ideology. I see everything from longtermist right accelerationists to climate activist socialist all pushing toward the same goal. Maybe I’ve reached the edge of the horseshoe where all varieties of madness live. But it seems more hopeful here. Admittedly, sometimes naive, but more often a refusal to cease pushing for change even when seemingly insurmountable forces have been recognized.