FeralRobots

Strikes me as I sit here that the obsession in Silicon Valley ethos with #MVP* can basically amount to a perverse variant on #TQM - call it "Total MVP" - where standard they aim for isn't 'zero errors', it's 'what's the shittiest, lowest-effort thing we can get away with?'

[inspired by https://phire.place/@eaton/111135477531937259, because I've had this feeling about Twitter for years w/o having clearly articulated it for myself, & what @eaton's noticing here could be a good example.]
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*Minimum Viable Product

Eaton (@[email protected])

So, I've been working on migrating my Twitter archive over to something sort-of-like a permanent home, in case something were, to, you know... happen. That means I've been doing a full archive export once a month for about six months. What's interesting and weird is that tweets are "falling out" of the newer archives. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason, but some are just gone. Will be poking around a bit, but it seems like it invalidates the whole point of, you know… the archive.

phire.place
Sep 27, 2023 at 10:22amWeb
Show threadFeralRobotsSep 27, 2023
...also this thought process led me to finally understand @SteveFaulkner's 'No MVP without a11y' mug, which because the slogan was attributed to @annaecook I initially somehow thought must have something to do with Microsoft MVPs. Makes much more sense (& more consistent with her areas of focus) if she's talking about minimum viable product.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1101690752/no-mvp-without-accessibility-by-anna-e
No MVP Without Accessibility by Anna E. Cook Red/green Mug - Etsy UK

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Show threadSteve FaulknerSep 27, 2023
@FeralRobots @annaecook works both ways 🙂
Show threadFeralRobotsSep 27, 2023
@SteveFaulkner @annaecook
Yeh I had a whole internal narrative for how it could work with MS MVPs & had one of those head-thump moments a few minutes later when I was ranting on a different brain-thread about Minimum Viable Product-think.