Some thoughts after reading A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction.

It makes sense for a design system to invest in the highest business priorities.

But does doing so accelerate the imbalance between higher and under invested areas of a product?

Perhaps even to the point of breaking.

By contrast, a population that is spread more evenly over its region minimises its impact on the ecology and the environment, and finds that it can take care of itself in the land while prudently, with less waste and more humanity.

But perhaps this is not possible because of the higher patterns software exists in, such as capitalism or venture capital.

Broadly speaking, it is only by decentralisation that we can increase self-sufficiency and self-sufficiency is vital if we are to minimise the burden of social systems on the ecosystems that support them.

Some thoughts after reading A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction.

Contribution is a tension between competition of an individual and the cooperation of an interdependent collective. Free-for-all competition replaced (in part) by cooperative mechanisms.

A non-descript mixture of values will tend to produce non-descript people (danmh: or perhaps non-descript design?).
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Distinct subcultures will only survive as distinct subcultures if they are physically separated in space.

What are the distinct ‘subcultures’ within GitLab (or any other org)? What is the centre of their ‘public life’? What’s in the space between?