Valley read Seeing Like a State but missed the point: users, MAU, DAU as legibility
tobowers · x · 2026-09-09
Developer Tobowers argues Silicon Valley collectively read Seeing Like a State and took the right lessons without introspecting its own practices. Terms like "users," "MAU," and "DAU," he says, replicate the book's critique of state-style legibility—compressing complex humans into abstract, measurable categories while ignoring their real circumstances.
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