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In today’s world; jobs either exist above the API, or below the API.
For example, Amazon’s MT[Mechanical Turk], a service that allows businesses to hire “crowdworkers” from anywhere in the world. MT is completely integrated into Amazon’s crown jewel AWS[Amazon Web Service], a cloud platform that runs a substantial fraction of the entire internet and spins off billions of dollars in profit every year. And like everything else integrated into AWS, MT is controlled by API’s[application programming interfaces]. On the internet API’s allow apps & websites to easily talk to each other. In the early days, w/o humans having to work in these discussions[well, virtually none]. MT and its followers introduced their own API’s, and it became possible for apps to request humans to do their bidding; yet, the distance to that human could be very, very long. So, your either above or below the API. If your an Uber driver or an Amazon warehouse worker you below the API; as your lasting relationship is w/the machine that brings customers to you, tracks your tasks, pays your salary., and ultimately fires you… If you have a job above the API, life is very different. You control humans by issuing commands-not face to face, but via API’s that give you unprecedented scale.
Put simply: if you lie above the API, you play the game;
if you lie below, your being played.
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Approx 39:13 clicks in the film - hits the crux[IMO].
Design for the human
or against the human.
Guess which won?
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They haven’t won yet and I don’t live in “USSA”. Refused…
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No they haven’t.
Actually, the individual can “win”; even if the group gives up the ghost.
But, eventually; the group needs to take care of business.
Where you hail from?
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The group can win too but an individual can spur the process.
I live near Spring, TX — U S A!
I was asked to move to Houston
w/the private investigation business I was working for.
Would of, should of, could of.
My sister was born in Fort Worth.
I was stationed at Perrin AFB[no longer exists]
Been through Texas many times.
It’s U S A !
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Good post. Thanks. The q&a is good too.
Doug Kellner is an interesting person.
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