I personally am curious to find out if what you are doing might amount to a generally useful paradigm, but you’re understandably getting some criticism because your work seems a little unconcerned about connecting with the rest of the world, and there appear to be things like personality and hubris at play.

I watched your video “farting around” and saw the mini language and the different terminals, but I still have no idea how that plus all the rhetoric in your blog post amount to something that people might want to use to solve real problems. Have you just connected up a bunch of concepts in your head and assumed that they are world changing? Would you be able to write documentation and examples explaining how people might use these concepts to solve actual problems?

It takes a certain kind of person, independently minded, to go so far down a rabbit hole and not care what people invested in the status quo (the overwhelming majority in tech) might think. And, since I’m also prone to this “style” of working, and also aware of how it interplays with personality, I’ve thought about it quite a bit, and my conclusion is that it’s potentially high reward in terms of innovation but it’s also high risk in terms of actually amounting to something.

It’s hard in tech, because if you were a visual artist your style of work would be rewarded as interesting and provocative but in tech it all has to make some kind of sense and guh can’t have any fun god forbid… it’s almost like we’ve been brainwashed… there’s not a lot of room for concept art in technical architecture (unfortunately).