diff --git a/Open Letter to Google.md b/Open Letter to Google.md index c3a35adda..f5db1f1ca 100644 --- a/Open Letter to Google.md +++ b/Open Letter to Google.md @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ While I am employed (which I hope will be many more years to come, in open colla ## In short: an Agora is what Google could be When I say, perhaps provocatively, that "Google" could or should be more like "an Agora", I mean not the [[Agora]] and [[Google]] exactly as they are in their current form, but rather in their full potential or [[entelechy]]; as per the set of values and intentions most closely aligned with the intent of the [[founders]] or [[stewards]] of a [[company]] or [[community]]. -The [[Agora]], in summary, is what I call the umbrella proposal that I mentioned above, presented as a [[prototype]], to help fix Google and similar systems. That is, I make the argument that the project I started personally and then developed as an informal 120% since around 2020 (see [[Agora project]]), represents a step forward in a good direction as we navigate the mid 20s together. You, [[dear reader]], will be the judge of these claims. +The [[Agora]], in summary, is what I call the umbrella proposal that I mentioned above, presented as a [[prototype]], to help us “fix” (improve) Google and similar carbon-silicon systems :) That is, in this letter I make the argument that the project I started personally and then developed as an informal 120% since around 2020 (see [[Agora project]]), represents a step forward in a good direction as we navigate the mid 20s together. You, [[dear reader]], will be the judge of these claims. Google is a corporation and a community of employees (traditionally "Googlers", assumed to be practicing "Googlyness" :) In this letter, I comment on how Google was and how Google is, and what Google could be (again?).