This is too often forgotten by developers. Our job isn't only about the technical side of things, we must also understand the domain the users are working in. It's a part of the craft.

OK, didn't know about this one. It was indeed ridiculous... we're really a weird species.

Excellent piece. I'm feeling unease at this widespread confusion between european ownership and digital freedom. What we collectively need is the latter. There's no sovereignty to be had in a proprietary ecosystem, be it owned by an European company or not.

This is a very good declaration and call to actions from the mathematics field. I wish we'd have something well thought out like this for computer science and software engineering as well.