Tech platforms’ playbook inevitably produces dumpster-fires

Anil Dash’s amazing “broken tech/content culture cycle.”

5 min readFeb 17, 2022

A flaming dumpster emblazoned with a shampoo label reading ‘lather, rinse, repeat,’ superimposed over the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Image: Open Food Facts (modified) https://world.openfoodfacts.org/cgi/product_image.pl?code=0080878189229&id=ingredients_en CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en Hugh D’Andrade/EFF (modified) https://www.eff.org/about/staff/hugh-dandrade Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL90

Very rarely, I find an article that I want to share, but whose every line so so perfect that I can hardly bear to summarize it because I just want to repost the whole thing, peppered with “HELL YEAH”s. That’s how I feel about Anil Dash’s “That broken tech/content…

Tech platforms’ playbook inevitably produces dumpster-fires

Anil Dash’s amazing “broken tech/content culture cycle.”

Written by Cory Doctorow