GLOSTASI ICARIAN ETHOS
What is the ‘Icarian Ethos’?
It is a reference to the story of
Icarus in Greek mythology, an allegory of the consequences of “complacency and then of
hubris”. What is usually taught with the story us neither fly too or too low. General, well accepted advice for general purposes. We aren’t general. The tale of Icarus in our conceptualization of is different. Man must test the limits to push onward into the future. Flying close to the sun is the only pathway to push the limits of our reality and out ability to interact with it. We ask not if we can, rather are we willing? Challenging personal incredulity is the only way to reach new heights. Prove incapability, not accept it as fact means untested. We look to better educate by utilizing conceptualization through practical experience. Open source and project-based learning is the most effectual and long-standing method to teach. We are an apprenticeship for the modern world. We operate under the following ideas:
- We are tradesmen.
- We fail upwards.
OUR APPROACH TO SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AS AN ENTITY
- We break down our problem from top down and enforce README Driven Developmentinitial stages.
- We don’t build the house if we don’t know what it looks like. To properly handle a problem, we must fully understand what the problem it. What is it? What does it mean? How will the near future impact it? Why is it a problem? Granulated detail about the Why/What/When/Where before asking ourselves: How?
- We don’t use tools If we can’t explain their necessity. Technology adaptation under the auspices of “Google is doing it” is not a sound reasoning for architectural technology choices.
- We eat our Wheaties.
- Criticism, and harsh criticism of our ideas is not an attack on the individual’s capability. It’s a gift from someone who took the time to find the holes in their idea so we can make it better. Pride and pedigree mean nothing here.. Keeping ourselves in check is ground up and top down Being a leader isn’t a title of self-importance, it is of overall importance.
- If you’re the smartest man in the room, its time to find a new room. Never aim to be the best at a singular service, always find a next challenge. Be humble and focus on the idea and not the person delineating it.
- We take breaks.
- We Learn Concepts Over Definitions
- What have wrenches, we call them wrenches. The important knowledge about the wrench it’s utility. Same for our tech stacks. We know how to use our tools and bring the right ones to the job.
- We work to engineer under the following concepts:
- Make it decoupled: Such as the wrench and the hammer are separate entities, so will the systems we build.
- Containerize it: A wrench fits a bolt. Our systems and subsystems are idealistically different wrenches to fit the bolts we fasten for the system.
- Archive all of it: When we build we in tandem document and archive our source material. We always have a paper trail for precedence and for reference,
- Make it scale: Planned obsolescence in our conceptualization is the lifetime the scale of our current system. We plan for it and code reusability is important. This is also why we don’t start until we understand what we want to accomplish,
- Make it simple: Simple and clean engineering is the best engineering. We don’t bring a skid-steer loader to garden a small plot, we don’t bring a trowel to move earth for a building. Over-engineering is bad engineering.
WHERE ARE WE GOING?
We are moving onward into the abyss. There is no better way to put it. We look for uncharted waters, chart them then find the next challenge. Every project we do aims to be a training path for people to learn, and more importantly be able to create. The training paths are meant to challenge, meant to take time and meant to give you the gift of knowledge through experience, not textbook. We have no NDA’s because our company secret is an open book. The environment we cultivate is what produces the best results, not our secret algorithms.
Last, we are embracing freedom of expression and are politically agnostic. Ideas can come in many forms and have different nomenclature. To police thought to impose our will over the agency and creative outlets our organization. Agency over our thoughts and ability to express them as we are is priority. Learn to handle the tides, don’t change them to fit your schedule. We build people to endure the nature of the world, not build a fortress for people to hide from is.
A. GLOWS
DRIVER OF THE STRUGGLE BUS, GLOSTASI
