(2011-09-02) Winer Remarkable Maker Vs Pig Pile

Dave Winer tries not to buy into the Pig Pile of noise around Silicon Valley or Journalism or politics. Slicon Valley is all about feeding at the trough and next-to-nothing about the idealism that many of us felt about the technology. The pigs always push aside the idealists, because they're willing to do the things the others won't do. And like the Republicans in Washington, unfortunately, that's a winning strategy, at least short term. I tried to solve the problem by leaving Silicon Valley, and writing software I believe in, and doing the best I can. For me it's never been primarily about money. I like money, up to a point -- but I'm really in it for the wonderful things you can do with the tech. It's an end in itself, not a means to an end. Kara does the best she can to deal with the trough-feeding-frenzy, but she must have to do a fair amount of it to be competitive in the business she's in.

Anil Dash notes: Sometimes it feels overwhelmingly difficult to communicate these Value-s to a new generation of Entrepreneur-s who aren't being shown good role models, but I remain optimistic that we can make this mindset the default.

Caterina Fake adds Anil and I have had a few conversations lately about building cool stuff (Maker) for the internet, the Golden Age of the Independent Web, and how it’s increasingly hard to filter out industry noise. (Meaningful Life)

As Caterina notes, part of this is simply leading by the example of your Works. But having a Big Picture World View document around is good, I think, for helping people Think Big: Fractally Generative Pattern Language.

Chad Dickerson makes the Infinite Game connection.