Post #4052720
2026-07-24 03:14 UTC
@benpate@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop @thisismissem@hachyderm.io I wasn't just being silly when I riffed on Anuj's People Not Platforms with Build Purpose Not Products last year. The phrase was off the cuff, but the Futures & Systems stuff I was already chasing was very heavily about understanding your functional outcome - the purpose of a system, the need it meets - first, and keeping guardrails up *hard* as you work backwards to your building blocks.
Unfortunately and even here, we've mostly not done that.
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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-07-24 03:19
@benpate@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop @thisismissem@hachyderm.io Our core tools are not bad, and it's not wrong that so many have started with "hey, I have an idea for this cool thing that'll solve my particular little nerdy problem" and set something out into the world. But the global digisphere is communication, which makes all tools relational. They become used in unexpected or unintended ways that can lead to harm, great or small, when we haven't considered whether the purpose meets the users' needs.
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@thisismissem@hachyderm.io 2026-07-24 04:24
@johannab@cosocial.ca do you know about the work of @erlend@writing.exchange and Muni-town? That might interest you @benpate@mastodon.social @scottjenson@social.coop