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A question I had when thinking about the two software economies is why the Joyous Software Economy, with a fraction of the resources, is consistently able to produce software of equal or higher quality compared to the Commerical Software Economy. This entry provides a conjecture as to why: there is a ceiling that caps how productive software development can be.
In this second part of the series on The Joy Economy, we discuss a potential solution to economy's lack of sustainability: money. While many operate on the theory that we can simply buy our way to sustainability, the way the joy economy functions suggests otherwise.
Software powers the modern world and it's quite expensive to develop. So why is it that so much software is written, maintained, and given away for free? In this entry, we discuss freely available software, how it relates to commercial software, it's unsustainability, and joy.
Designing your own identifiers is a fun exercise, but you can sometimes get distracted by the more basic things. In this dispatch, we discuss a recent deadend path involving probability, collisions, and entropy.
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