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"Luddite" Is A Compliment

by David Simmer | at Minnebar 19

We hear the word "Luddite," we think "opposed to technology". "Stuck in their ways." "Anti-innovation."

We're wrong! This caricature does them (and us) a disservice!

Let's discuss what they got right, dig into why they were opposed so violently in their time, and learn some lessons for our current world. We've all got more in common with them than we realize.

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David Simmer

David Simmer is a designer and engineer with a couple decades of experience building for people who use the web. Homeschooled as a kid, and having shifted to working in tech as second career, he's had a weird and fortunate career journey.

Most recently, he's been a fullstack engineer at Netflix for 5+ years working on a wide variety of efforts: GraphQL Federation, unifying UX across internal tools, improving the experience of software migrations large and small, and cross-functional projects that make other engineers' days better.

After five years away in California, he now lives in St Paul with his wife Cleo and two rescue dogs named Chuck and Greta. Among other hobbies, he plays piano, mountain bikes, skis, and is learning to build cabinetry.

Website: https://simmer.ooo

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