[sudo-discuss] Spiritual analysis of last weeks Meeting

[Naomi Most]

Look, here's the problem with deliberating long hours over bureaucracy
in a hacker organization:
Greetings lovelies,

If I may step in with some perspective based on about a decade of
hanging out in hacker groups...

Hackers' primary M.O. is GETTING AROUND RULES.

So, if you, on an individual level, enjoy making up rules and getting
semantics perfect, you should do that... as a project... on your own
time.

Because I guarantee you that *at least* those 11 people who abstained
last week, plus several more I'm sure, were sitting there completely
disengaged from that special interest project, because it is not
fundamentally interesting.

Why is it not interesting?  Well, for something to be interesting, it
has to feel as though it actually affects you.

If you believe that rules are made for getting-around, then of what
interest is it, really, what the content of those rules actually is?

I can make some strong arguments as to why front-loading your
rules-making in a hacker culture is a waste of time at best, and
dangerous at worst.  (One example: some of the people who are most
interested in the letter of the law turn out to be the most interested
in twisting it to their own ends.)

But to be honest, I'd rather get back to hacking.

I'll see some of you tonight for sudo room radio stuff.  Many of you I
will not see for radio stuff, because it may not be of interest.  :)

Cheers,
Naomi



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