Monthly Archives: January 2025

You have not Read Your Favourite Book about Your Favourite Song

I was reading You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song (McDonald, 2024) today while doing some initial research for an overview paper. I had high hopes for it, but found that it was very one dimensional. Questions about culture and algorithms are largely pushed to one side and limited to a few things with […]

January 9, 2025 – 6:04 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in algorithms | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Go at Your Own Pace and Be Social?

I was recently re-reading Paula Bialski’s Middle Tech (Bialski, 2024), an ethnographic account of her time at a German software company that explores culture of Good Enough in software. It is an engaging book that seemingly moves against the Move Fast and Break Things culture, but I am wondering if it holds water there as […]

January 9, 2025 – 5:37 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in algorithms, Software Engineering | Tagged , | Comments (0)