From fd451c40e3831b71e99bf927cbf4ed0fbc085d37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lu Wilson Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 21:22:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update readme.md --- sky/power-in-arroost/readme.md | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/sky/power-in-arroost/readme.md b/sky/power-in-arroost/readme.md index 7ce4c3ea..d760d34e 100644 --- a/sky/power-in-arroost/readme.md +++ b/sky/power-in-arroost/readme.md @@ -178,11 +178,15 @@ And for me, this is the big glaring issue with power in arroost, and it's someth I imposed my views of what I thought would be beneficial... onto others. -Listen, I think I was right: I think it was a "helpful" thing to do! But I didn't ask people if they wanted me to make those decisions or changes: I just did them. +Listen, I thought I was right: I thought it was a "helpful" thing to do! But I didn't ask people if they wanted me to make those decisions or changes: I just did them. -It would be so much more empowering if I let you choose: Choose which features you wanted and which ones you didn't. Because then... if you do decide to use arroost as I offer it, and it works out... Then it's you who succeeded, instead of me. +It would be so much more empowering if I let you choose: Choose which features you wanted and which ones you didn't. Because then... if you do decide to use arroost as I offer it, and it works out... Then it's even more clearly you who succeeded, instead of me stealing your credit. -I shouldn't get to claim victory when someone else benefits from using arroost. That belongs to them! Not to me. Not to arroost. But to them. +I shouldn't get to claim victory when you benefit from using arroost. That belongs to you! Not to me or to arroost but to you. + +Too many of our tools (including mine) claim to empower people but instead impose their own constricted world view. + +As developers, researchers, whatevers, this is all we seem to do. Software is repeatedly a controlling and limiting and manipulating force.