Notes

The word «platform» is convenient because it hides the question of responsibility. An institution is obligated; a platform merely provides. Worth keeping that distinction in mind when you read about «neutral infrastructure».

A feature flag is a decision dressed up as a setting. Its political content is hidden in an interface for insiders. The smoother the tool, the more invisible the choice.

The entrepreneur as a figure is convenient because it removes the question of structure: if everything depends on initiative, there is no need to talk about order.

Good architecture and good social theory do the same thing: they draw boundaries and name them honestly. Splitting a system into modules is always a claim about what relates to what.

Work that does not look like work is the hardest to measure. That is why «creative» labour so easily becomes endless.