Hacker Stance
26 Aug 2022 - 27 Aug 2022
- A stance. The unpretentious cousin of Designer Stance
- Stewart Brand definition of hacker as "lazy engineer"
- Systems are fascinating, and it is possible to enter into them, inhabit them, put them to your own purposes.
- Another aspect: barriers are to be gotten around.
- Child as hacker (see Introduction to Inventive Minds )
- Evil as a bug, a flaw to be fixed. A hacker might get angry at some less than optimal feature of a system, but (unlike normal people in the normal course of life), he can turn his curses into direct action.
- Limitations
- well, the people who become hackers tend to be deficiently socialized. If you care about systems, you care less about individuals (or at least, think about them less). There's this autistic quality.
- Opposites
- frustration, anger, excuse-making