When the code bot says "I see the issue now" I cannot emphasise enough how much it has not and will not see the issue now or at any point in the future, in any future, in any universe, across all space and time
Everyone talks about "hustle culture" vs "quiet quitting" but nobody mentions the third option which is what like 80% of knowledge workers actually do: appearing frantically busy while accomplishing approximately one good hour of work per day, spread across 47 browser tabs and 6 Slack channels
The people preaching 'move fast and break things' are the same folks whose entire economic livelihood depends on the system moving very, very slowly and protecting their accumulated equity and I just think thatβs beautiful (stupid)
The biggest insight into human nature I've gained from social media is that 90% of arguments are just elaborate ways for people to say, 'I'm not like those other people.'
If a psychological study has a catchy name like "The Marshmallow Test" or "Power Posing," the probability of it replicating is inversely proportional to the number of TED Talks given about it.
"Let's normalize" what the fuck about any of this is normal we crossed the normalize event horizon sometime around 2016 and now we're just free-falling through a reality where nothing means anything, you can't normalize your way out of this one
βWe donβt talk enough aboutβ sir let me stop you there we talk enough about everything, all we do is talk on the internet 24 hours a day 7 days a week we donβt shut the fuck up enough
At 13, I joined a Wolfenstein 3d modding forum. 22 years later, my posts are still there - and still searchable.
The discussion I had in Discord 2 years ago?
Not so much.
We chose this. We can choose better.
The moderates make sense, so they're boring. The extremists are insane, so they're viral. Every movement gets defined by its worst members because outrage is the only thing that scales...
When the topic gets ruined by the worst 5% of its advocates.
Veganism becomes "you're a murderer." Crypto becomes "have fun staying poor." Effective Altruism becomes "letting people die today is good actually." The reasonable majority gets drowned out by the loudest extremists and now nobody can have normal conversations about anything.
The flanks capture the discourse.
