@jlapoutre 😂 nice! Very dark and gloomy 🤣

Actually @darius’s comment in the talk got me thinking. Darius is obviously talented and knowledgeable enough that any ignorance of lower-level substrates (like physical networking protocols and semiconductor physics and the like) doesn’t bother him but I do know of at least one person whose ignorance about “bits and bytes and binary and networks” makes them feel hesitant to think about bigger picture social-technology things and I tried to assuage that by just saying, “those things are definitely deep topics that people spend their careers on just one tiny slice, but you are totally capable of getting the big picture to sufficient level that you can have the confidence to at least talk about this stuff.” That was in this https://steveawiggins.com/2017/01/07/size-does-matter/#comment-19050 (I’m the commenter “Ahmed Fasih”), and I’m tentatively adapting that long comment into a standalone blog post with the grandiose hope that it might help someone 😝 in general I don’t believe people need to know how bits and bytes work to few they have permission to think about socio-technological issues but for some reason I care about the sliver of people who do?

(Not sure if the above made any sense, I’m just thinking about at this point, sorry)