More new mindsets, fewer new technologies:

A tale as old as time, trying to fix current technology with more—and new—technology. As if technology is the problem and not the people who are using it. For blogging to form communities you just need some goodwill. All the tools are out there. HTTP is a perfectly fine protocol, email still works, RCS and Matrix are good-enough for chats and if those aren’t your jam you can pick one of the countless alternatives.

When all you’ve got is a hammer… It’s the problem that many discussions around the impact of technology and the problems they cause are led by technologists, who are often users but are rarely representative of the majority of users. And so, because they have been solving problems with technology for their whole life, they look to technology for every problem they encounter. If no-one is doing code reviews on time, maybe we need another notification system, because email and slack and verbal reminders don’t cut it. When our online communities are broken we look to replace the underlying protocol instead of changing our approach to applications that use the protocols. It creates the never-ending cycle of problem, technology solution, more problems, more technology. It’s what keeps us all in employment.