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Not sure if its a sufficient explanation, but I like what I've heard from Cal Newport about this. More and more self-service IT systems were able to replace a lot of jobs. But the …

It's been disappointing to see Khan's FTC focus so much on big tech—and frequently fail to make their case—when so many other anti-competitive behavior in other sectors has gone un…

Putting all your community resources on Discord is the surest way to repel me from joining your community.

Bills should only have numbers, never names. Cattle, not pets.

This was my first thought too. Shows how Google has trained us to expect the worst from them...

Learning, memory, and attention are finite biological resources on the individual level. As long as there's a fresh crop of college grads each year, companies can afford to burn ou…

I've had this same experience. Every time I go to my local specialty beer shops, it's nothing but 4-packs that _start_ at $16. I've never even heard of most of them, and a large po…

For months now, emails with subjects like "MCAfeeconfirmati0n--#21845315" and "confirmation#4073301981" have been hitting my inbox. These are such obvious spam emails that I'm unsu…

How many CEO's are CEO'ing for more than one company? If they can do it, why not the plebs?

That's the real danger of AI: not that is wants to kill us all, but that it kills us all simply by accident.

Book bans just feel silly and antiquated in the age of the Internet. If kids want to read something, they can get it on their phones—that and probably much worse than anything that…

Something I once heard that I think is kinda true: When something goes wrong on the computer, there are two types of reactions: I am wrong, or the computer is wrong. The "I am wron…

It's interesting that AA is so hostile to psychedelic therapies when their founder believed they could be very useful. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/23/lsd-help-alc.…

The disappointment of old games for me is usually the controls. Newer games have polished controls so well that movement almost feels like a direct extension of thought. But when I…

I've been getting this feedback since grade school, and I'm still getting it now in my 30's. It's an extroverts' world and I just live in it...

I was at a place for many years where the CEO was quite bad. He had few skills, both technical and interpersonal. So many people in the organization had strategies for dealing with…

Simple case of distributed costs and concentrated benefits. Imagine a corrupt bureaucrat who demands a small bribe from every person who needs them to perform a service. It's a pai…

I would assume that the USWDS are built with section 508 compliance in mind, and I'm not sure Bootstrap, et al., care about that. https://www.section508.gov/

While I really enjoyed Stardew Valley, I had to stop playing it. I wasn't getting a chill country farmer escaping the busy city vibe. I was trying to maximize my actions for every …

In my experience, companies value call center staff so little that turnover is extremely high. That means that you're unlikely to speak to someone with enough experience to solve y…

I can't say what the author's intent was, but I see two ways to parse this: one I disagree with, one I agree with. The disagreeable interpretation is that the only way to learn is …

Any theory of economics that only works if you can depend on an elected body to take quick and reasonable steps—like raising taxes—is one doomed to failure, and ought not be tried.…

I worked for a 80+ year old non-profit. Their tech was definitely a shit show before I turned it around. I won't be surprised if it ends up degrades into a shit show again in a dec…

I gave up on containers in Firefox a while ago. They didn't really support subdomains, which made using some services (e.g., AWS) extremely painful. Any site with a different subdo…

I experimented with modafinil for a week once. Early on, it seemed great—I was productive and had a good mood. By the end of the week, I really didn't feel any different from basel…