[Ryan Barrett]

Ryan Barrett takes Stewart Brand's Pace Layering 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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