"Today, Komoroske and a loose group of concerned technologists are releasing The Resonant Computing Manifesto, an idealistic set of principles that attempts to recenter Silicon Valley around the values that have been lost in the scramble to hyperscale and maximize shareholder value. Komoroske and his coauthors are inviting anyone who, um, resonates with this jeremiad to sign it and proselytize those values in the products they create."
"Though he cut his product-management teeth at Google and Stripe, he was never comfortable with the industry's increasing prioritization of profits over people. Once during his time at Google, he extolled the societal benefits of a project only to be met with, "Oh Alex, you'd be a VP by now if you just stopped thinking through the implications of your actions." Since that 2010s episode, the revenues and valuations in tech have skyrocketed, as has the blithe disregard for users."
Alex Komoroske experienced discomfort with Big Tech's shift toward prioritizing profits over people, citing an incident at Google where product implications were dismissed. Revenues and valuations in tech have surged alongside increasing disregard for users. Komoroske and a group of concerned technologists released the Resonant Computing Manifesto, a set of principles aimed at recentering Silicon Valley on lost values and encouraging practitioners to embed those values into products. The manifesto invites signatories and offers a shared document for community input on resonant computing theses. Participants describe the effort as a response to cynicism and a call to revive human-centered innovation.
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