This page lists things I'm interested in knowing about and want more entry points into researching. If you have resources on any of these topics, please let me know!
Is there a name for the tactic of starting a business with a model you know to be illegal, with the goal of getting entrenched enough quickly enough that by the time the regulator gets around to enforcing on you, they're afraid to put you out of business? e.g. Uber, Airbnb, …
There's an element of willful blindness, and an element of Too Big to Fail, but the thing I'm thinking about specifically is the deliberate race against oversight.
Programming languages and paradigms as sociotechnical artifacts, e.g. what is the intellectual history of OOP? What did people think about the world that made them think OOP was a good way to model it? What is the human story of that idea's development? How and why did e.g. Prolog happen? Are there marked differences in popular languages/paradigms/practices across different cultures?