02 November 2022 - Everett

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technology interdependence, technology gap, gap encounters, coordination, bridges/bridging, affordance, imbrication, routines, pipes, tooling

articles

• Bailey, Leonardi, & Chong’s “Minding the Gaps: Understanding Technology Interdependence and Coordination in Knowledge Work” (2010), in Organization Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1090.0473 [bailey2010minding]
  • I mentioned this paper in this thread.
• Leonardi’s “When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies” (2011), in MIS Quarterly. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23043493 [leonardi2011flexible]
• Bailey & Leonardi’s “Technology choices: Why occupations differ in their embrace of new technology” (2015), from MIT Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt17kk9d4 [bailey2015technology]

Tweets

Why don't developers write more personal GUI tooling? I mean, besides the obvious reason that GUI libraries kinda suck and are much more oriented towards making consumer apps than personal tooling, and also because there are no good GUI tooling exemplars, and...

— Hillel (@hillelogram) November 1, 2022

I remember the first time I used a Unix pipe to chain tools together. It was my first encounter with the Unix philosophy and it completely changed the way I approach solving problems.

Now I break things down into smaller chunks and use the best tool for each unit of work.

— Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) March 18, 2022