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# Tech pace layers
- URL: https://werd.io/tech-pace-layers/
- Published: 2024-12-31T15:01:29.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-31T15:01:29.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Technology, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Ryan Barrett](https://snarfed.org/2024-12-30%5F54435)\]

Ryan Barrett takes [Stewart Brand's Pace Layering](https://longnow.org/ideas/pace-layers/) and adapts it to model technology progress:

> "I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the holiday break to bang out a rough draft. Thoughts?"

My thoughts are that this is helpful. It's also a good way to think about where you want to be in the stack as a person: product is this kind of messy, unstable squiggle of a progress line, whereas the underlying CS, standards, and components provide relative stability. It's as much of a guide to where to orient your tech career as it is to how the whole system works.

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\[[Link](https://snarfed.org/2024-12-30%5F54435)\]