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1. Irenes (many) (irenes@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 19:23:12 UTC Irenes (many)

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   • Raghav Agrawal

   @impactology ouch. you're clearly right, but that's super distressing to us because computing as a field of study is going through this transition where NOBODY today has the path to learning that worked so well to get everything off the ground

   • Jess🧟‍♀️ (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 19:23:12 UTC Jess🧟‍♀️

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     • Raghav Agrawal

     @irenes @impactology
     I'm reminded of the saying - something like "science progresses one funeral at a time". Basically meaning that progress in a field is stalled and stagnated by the power of the "giants" of the field who want to defend and maintain the relevance of their innovations in their generation. The field never progresses until after they/their cronies die.

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   • Raghav Agrawal (impactology@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 19:23:13 UTC Raghav Agrawal

     I think a good sign of a learning or research environment or even a body of knowledge or the set of methods of acquiring it is how much freedom or chances it affords future generations in disengaging and rethinking, to redirect, reroute, branch off

     That it allows creating as many "break points"/stops in whatever you make, from where people can disengage, discontinue, deviate and branch off,

     Do as much as you can to avoid creating path dependencies & lock-ins