In followup on the RSA animation videos here’s the original talk by Barbara Ehrenreich titled Smile or Die.
I think part of GNOME’s crisis is caused by the same atmosphere of “go with the program, don’t complain, or you’re out”. I wrote about this before:
It’s not popular to be critical about a (the leader of a) popular idea. This is illustrated by the intellectually absurd criticisms David Schlesinger receives.
Yet is the critic who monitors the organs of a society key to that organ either producing for its stakeholders, or failing and dragging the entire society it serves down with it.
Acknowledging the problem and changing course is what I seek in a candidate this year.
OK, two is enough. Back to technical articles.