Articles from TnL
One of the harder things to realize is that the loudest voice of any given thing is an idiot and should be ignored. Part of the problem is we had this asinine campaign to give everyone a voice as if they didn't already have one, but ultimately the incentives of the attention economy or the engagement economy is that we respond to feelings instead of information. It's time to be the adult in the room and tell people with strong feelings that they aren't allowed to have an opinion until they get past their emotions into the real work.
Programmers are some of the most powerful people on the planet, and not in a John Galt kind of way, that's just stupid. I mean that software has given extreme leverage to individuals and businesses alike, and the barrier to entry has always been extremely low. In the last 20 years, we have collectively given up that power and consolidated it in the hands of a few major tech companies. We did this because we're either lazy, incompetent, or more often than not, both.
You shouldn't hate yearly subscriptions, but you should absolutely hate how they're done by some companies. You might be on the ball about them, having a list to check and evaluate, but grandma isn't, and that's how they get her.
MBAs may be the worst tech influences possible, and every investor that disagrees can take some time to reflect on how their perspective is probably based on rent-seeking behavior. We'll get there.
In many ways, all of social interaction is about getting someone else to do something for you. We like to think of ourselves as caring and altruistic, but without the feedback loop from others we are just telling ourselves that we are what we think we are, and with the feedback loop that's the actual thing we want from someone else.