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?