Software, but not as we know it
summary
Argues that consumer software lacks durable, composable building blocks for people’s personal processes: upgrades and web-app rollouts reshape workflows without consent. Cites work on a product called tota for taking digital things and making them work more like physical things and contrasts desktop apps vs always-changing web apps and Clojure-style composability. Notes this tension has been explored for about 20 years and summarizes the core insight as process is personal. Presents a problem and a prototype approach; no complete solution yet.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:44Digital meets physical
- 3:31The software upgrade problem
- 7:00Process is personal
- 9:07Wrong building blocks
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