Thread by @anildash

I don’t know that it’s a New Year’s Resolution, so much as a wish that I will try to do my part to make happen, and I’ll ask for everyone’s help on, but I want there to be more documentation of the folk knowledge around how tech (and the tech industry) really works.

These days, I often find that people who have been in it (and been *through* it) are exhausted by having the same conversations over & over. People who are new feel lost about the context they’re lacking for conversations that seem supercharged out of the gate.

And the only documentation or context is provided by people who are trying to sell you something or to twist a narrative to suit their goals. If you were just starting out & wanted to know why a certain pattern is bad, where would you go to find out? This is a key piece we lack.

I’ve tried to write pieces in this vein before; I know it’s hard, sometimes thankless work. I promise if you make something like this & are nervous to put it out, I’m happy to review it or suggest others who might be best to give it a read. We just need more attempts at sharing.

This thread the other day got a fairly good audience, I think for exactly these reasons. Some didn’t know this, and some knew it all too well. That has value, even if I know my phrasing or framing of it was far from perfect. I want to amplify more, and better, things like this.

https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1475936817534935041