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EngineeringFairyTales.pdf

shanley
August 09, 2013

 EngineeringFairyTales.pdf

From 2013 Distill Conference. Analyzing Engineering Dysfunction. Axes for Understanding Fairytales and Culture.

shanley

August 09, 2013
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  1. 300-399 supernatural opponents 560-649 magical items 750-799 god rewards and

    punishes 870-879 woman marries the prince 1000-1029 labor contract 1200-1349 stories about a fool 1525-1639 stories about a man Friday, August 9, 13
  2. repackaging for mass audiences, submerging conflict and meaning, profiting from

    -ist representations, misrepresenting historical facts, normalizing inequality , glamorizing violence and assault Friday, August 9, 13
  3. writing. cultural studies. semiotics. feminism. infrastructure. databases. distributed systems. APIs.

    platforms. @shanley on Twitter and on Medium Friday, August 9, 13
  4. we get past a thing to its meaning through a

    process of interrogation Friday, August 9, 13
  5. this is important because being an engineering culture does not

    mean that we are good at engineering Friday, August 9, 13
  6. no evaluation of core technology unable to profile operations burden

    not testing for scale and ops Friday, August 9, 13
  7. building products for an unpaying audience of syncopathic journalists and

    18-24 year olds with no technology budget? Friday, August 9, 13
  8. architectural beliefs approaches to building services methodologies for operating teams

    strategies for evaluating technologies Friday, August 9, 13
  9. create a culture where it’s safe to examine what is

    really going on Friday, August 9, 13