Worse Is Better

There's a famous joke essay called Worse Is Better, which compares the New Jersey and the MIT ideologies. In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss these two different ideologies and how they show up in technology, from Go, to dependency management, to electric vehicles. This week's episode of break continues the conversation. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/21. In this week's bonus content, the duo discusses how idealistic thinking has slowed down the adoption of electric vehicles and what a better path forward might have looked like. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! Thanks for tuning in and happy watching! Show Notes: - Worse Is Better (https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html) - Simple Made Easy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4) - Less Is Exponentially More (https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html) - Go += Package Versioning (https://research.swtch.com/vgo-intro) - govulncheck (https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/vuln/cmd/govulncheck) - The Bizarre Logic of the F-150 Lightning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OvA__3Dzk) Chapters: 00:00:00 Prologue 00:02:58 Chapter 1: Worse Is Better? 00:10:39 Chapter 2: Go Got Stranded In The Middle 00:33:32 Chapter 3: SemVer Is Fundamentally Broken 00:47:19 Chapter 4: We Don't Live In The Ideal World 00:56:26 Chapter 5: BEVs vs EREVs [Extended] 00:56:58 Chapter 6: Holistic vs Deep 01:01:39 Epilogue Host: @skriptble Co-Host: @sudomateo Beats by Breakmaster Cylinder (https://www.breakmastercylinder.com) Socials: Website - https://fallthrough.fm BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/fallthroughfm.bsky.social Threads - https://threads.net/@fallthroughfm X/Twitter - https://x.com/fallthroughfm LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/fallthrough Instagram - https://instagram.com/fallthroughfm