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Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies (2022)
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The software project and its programmers are an indivisible and organic entity that our industry treats like a toy model made of easily replaceable lego blocks. Going against the grain of software development makes catastrophe more likely, much like how the wrong type of wood, steel, or concrete will lead a bridge to collapse. To reuse Donna Haraway’s words, software is simultaneously fiercely material and irreducibly imaginary(p. xii, Gray 1995).
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