From 398b523d6b79c7147b53f888b2693ca2fd02e7ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tasshin Fogleman Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 05:13:13 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Reformatted Simon Wardley's thread, with minor typo changes. --- index.md | 78 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-) diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index ba4835d..892ba52 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -2192,60 +2192,30 @@ See also, if twitter still exists when you’re reading this: https://twitter.co Well, he probably wouldn’t mind if I just pasted it here: -Thread -See new Tweets -Conversation -Simon Wardley #EEA #Labour -@swardley -Me : Gosh, your work is truly amazing. -X : Thanks. I'd like to make it more widespread like your mapping. -Me : That's easy. Just make it open, creative commons. People will ignore for years but don't worry. -X : What if someone steals it. -Me : They can't steal what you give away. -5:23 PM · Nov 28, 2019·TweetDeck -18 - Retweets -70 - Likes -Simon Wardley #EEA #Labour -@swardley -· -22h -Replying to -@swardley -X : But wha if someone else makes money with it? -Me : That's good news. The more the better. You're trying to create a community, a space for your work to exist in. Do you seek irrelevance? -X : No -Me : Then open it up. -Simon Wardley #EEA #Labour -@swardley -· -22h -X : Can't I get some VC to sponsor or invest in me? -Me : You're more likely to get someone with capital to steal your idea, cut yourself out of a market and never expand it. Entire markets are lost over legal squabbles and attempts to "own" stuff ... see Unix. -Simon Wardley #EEA #Labour -@swardley -· -22h -X : I wasn't around at that time. -Me : Oh, no problem. The entire future of the operating system was lost by a bunch of squabbling execs backed up by over enthusiastic lawyers, none of which could spell strategy let alone play it. This is a common story throughout history. -Simon Wardley #EEA #Labour -@swardley -· -22h -... into the mix, an "unruly" individual played an open source hand and asked for help. It was mostly laughed at, dismissed as lacking any business acumen and then won the world. It's another reasonably common story. -Simon Wardley #EEA #Labour -@swardley -· -22h -X : Reasonably? -Me : Yes ... an open play doesn't exempt people from making utterly daft mistakes. See OpenStack and differentiation on APIs with AWS. -Simon Wardley #EEA #Labour -@swardley -· -22h -X : I'm nervous about this. -Me : Well, that's a good sign. The numero uno of daft moves is to open by default. You're struggling with this question which means you're on the open by thinking path. Even my opening of mapping all those years ago had a plan but no guarantees +Me: Gosh, your work is truly amazing. +X: Thanks. I'd like to make it more widespread like your mapping. +Me: That's easy. Just make it open, creative commons. People will ignore for years but don't worry. +X: What if someone steals it. +Me: They can't steal what you give away. + +X: But what if someone else makes money with it? +Me: That's good news. The more the better. You're trying to create a community, a space for your work to exist in. Do you seek irrelevance? +X: No +Me: Then open it up. + +X: Can't I get some VC to sponsor or invest in me? +Me: You're more likely to get someone with capital to steal your idea, cut yourself out of a market and never expand it. Entire markets are lost over legal squabbles and attempts to "own" stuff ... see Unix. + +X: I wasn't around at that time. +Me: Oh, no problem. The entire future of the operating system was lost by a bunch of squabbling execs backed up by over enthusiastic lawyers, none of which could spell strategy let alone play it. This is a common story throughout history. + +... into the mix, an "unruly" individual played an open source hand and asked for help. It was mostly laughed at, dismissed as lacking any business acumen and then won the world. It's another reasonably common story. + +X: Reasonably? +Me: Yes ... an open play doesn't exempt people from making utterly daft mistakes. See OpenStack and differentiation on APIs with AWS. + +X: I'm nervous about this. +Me: Well, that's a good sign. The numero uno of daft moves is to open by default. You're struggling with this question which means you're on the open by thinking path. Even my opening of mapping all those years ago had a plan but no guarantees [Go up to this section's line in the Full Table of Contents][Go to the Partial Guided Tour (in the Quick Start Guide)] From 05c6b85815cbac664e6906ccce08aca88276b0a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tasshin Fogleman Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 05:15:22 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Typo: misterpreting -> misinterpreting. --- index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index 892ba52..9c0fd3f 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -2166,7 +2166,7 @@ One can do a similar thing with self-improvement and meditation techniques. That That similar thing is to write better meditation manuals, and to keep improving them. Make them comprehensively explicit and conceptually clear. (My material has a long way to go, but it’s arguably pretty good. It seems like people do best when they’ve had some prior contact with other meditation techniques, and often it takes at least a tiny bit of question-answering with me, but some fraction of people on-ramp pretty quickly. And it’s my hope that skilled people will be able to de novo bootstrap with my material even if they have no contact with anyone who’s used it before, say if they find it on the internet somewhere. -There’s still all sorts of dangers, here. It’s a trope of people destroying themselves with found texts and people mistintpreting texts or teachers, going too far too fast or perversely misterpreting, becoming dark wizards, cult leaders, arch nemeses, and so forth. +There’s still all sorts of dangers, here. It’s a trope of people destroying themselves with found texts and people mistintpreting texts or teachers, going too far too fast or perversely misinterpreting, becoming dark wizards, cult leaders, arch nemeses, and so forth. But there’s something better, sometimes, about freely available, explicit meditation manuals versus esoteric knowledge mostly locked up in people. (Back in the day, by being esoteric, that’s how some traditions survived, I assume, making it possible for as to know about them and build on them. They kept the knowledge rare and valuable, so they could eat and keep the thing going. Hard problems, here. It sometimes also avoided the dangers in the above paragraph, probably, but the tropes still exist for a reason.)