On Post-Scarcity, Scrum, and Feeling Sorry for Robots 🤖
What to Talk About if You’re a Person in Tech this Week: All the free opinions you need to sound like a smartypants at lunch
Hello Hackers,
Welcome to this week’s edition of must-read-tech-reads from Hackernoon and beyond... 😺
What Post Scarcity Means
— by Amber Cazzell (9min read)
Post-scarcity is an economic situation in which the production of a good outpaces its demand.
Many act like post-scarcity is some pipe-dream. The stuff of utopian fairy-tales and science fiction. I beg to differ. Actually, I think in many respects, it is already here in the US. We just don’t see the abundance right beneath our noses because our current economic paradigm makes it incomprehensible. read more —
The Paywall Paradox of Medium
Writers who create content that enables Medium’s paywall are blocked from reading Medium’s content by that same paywall. read more —
5 Ways We Can Work to Close the Gender Gap in Tech
— by Adrien Book (9min read)
Diversity is not the same as inclusion. read more —
Here is why developers should write more (words, not code)
— by amina.zilic (4min read)
Run your code and help a few. Write about it and help many. write more —
— on the subject of writing more:
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Last but not least: Notable Fake of the Week
Did you kinda maybe feel somewhat sorry for that robot? You’re not alone.
Are machines really deserving of empathy? Do we need to worry about people fighting for robot rights? These are big questions that are only going to become more relevant.
Discuss:
Until next time,
Tash, aka hacker noon tech
