Small Is Beautiful #17

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Lessons learned working against the grain of the mainstream

In this informal stream, Laura and I discuss some of the lessons we learned working against the interests of surveillance capitalism for close to the past decade.

Topics covered

• Economic challenges (funding and the challenges of remaining independent)
• Things may take longer than you thought (and that’s ok)
• The challenges of working in an environment where tools and infrastructure have been built to fit needs of large corporations and centralised systems that exploit people for profit.
• Why you might not want to use crowdfunding
• Embracing your humanity (don’t try to emulate corporate models, practices, etc.)
• Design vs. Decoration
• The advantages of iteration, sharing, and working in the open (as well as the challenges)

Streamed using our own Owncast instance. (Hint: you can install Owncast using Site.js.)

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Transcript

To follow.