In biographies and brands, after some clear examples Jacobs notes that many accusations of “factual errors” are really brand defenses:
When they said that Jacobs makes many factual errors, they weren’t even really making a truth claim, they were uttering a spell to ward off the stranger. They were placing me outside their Inner Ring.
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In vendoring culture, I’m fascinated by the parallels he draws between vendoring code, and what Gene Luen Yang has done by incorporating DC Comics' earliest racist caricature into a new comic:
What Yang has done is moral repair through vendoring code &em; in this case ... cultural code. And note that Yang has not ... simply pointed to code created and maintained by someone else. ...he could only correct it by making it his own.
Had I read both, I still wouldn’t have made that connection. Spark.
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MacWright:Frictionless note-taking produces notes, but it doesn’t - for me - produce memory.