Teaching developers the industry’s techniques triggered his reversal

Evidence

In 2016, Nick started teaching design and development at a popular programming boot camp in Denver. It was then, when he was tasked with teaching the next generation of developers the inside techniques of the industry, that he began to question the principles creating an increasingly toxic web environment. He saw the ways tech depleted him and his wife in their personal lives, and the ways it encouraged resentment and vindictiveness in society as a whole. It was hijacking politics. Plus, Nick had two daughters. It didn’t even bear thinking about what effect human fracking would have on their well-being. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 406

Categorization

• XREF: Nick’s swing from App-store insider to attention activist mirrors the classic reformer arc in Adorno’s student-movement analysis — proximity to the machine breeds the critic. — connects to: A developer himself endorsed radical change in property rights concepts — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 966