> I get a lot of what you are saying, and have similar feelings sometimes.
I understand what you're doing and I even commend what you're doing trying to do by mediating between seemingly conflicting members of the 'same team,' but as a former founder/project manager there is no time for this type of coddling anymore. We are seriously living and witnessing the verge of WW3 with it possibly going nuclear as more time passes which has more dire implications then people seem to acknowledge or understand.
> Also worth considering that whilst you are studying this, there are many practitioners on here that have will have gone through similar journeys.
That makes things worse, for over a decade I've been here as a complete novice lurking, bootstrapping founder, and an employee at a mega-corp trying to figure out how most are content with 'just doing 3 hours of work' everyday and still being highly compensated but depressed and dealing with anxiety and eventual burnout when they could/should/must apply their skill set into things that help address the litany of existential threats we all face as a Species.
Instead, its like every other week someone posts about how they've come up with something novel on factorio and I'm just lost for words on how things get better.
I speak to people like this because it's only by being harsh that people actually take any notice and the tech Industry needs a collective kick in the face and nuts!
For all the talk and lip-service about disruption, most will do EVERYTHING possible to maintain the status quo and keep things business as usual because they're comfortable in their situation and it keeps them from ever actually getting involved in real projects because it doesn't have a guaranteed ROI or badge they can show off to others in this Industry as a form of virtue signalling: which is what really matters to most here.
The only time I've burned out was when I was working 90+ hours; and those days are over for me as I've paid too high a mental and physical cost after 2 decades of that, but what I'm seeing is not encouraging so I address people accordingly in the hopes they get that things are fucking dire!
No one should care about Twitter take over, even if Musk is involved, seriously it's just a platform that has outgrown it's utility because of an inept board according to it's founder. It should just migrate to something like Bluesky already and is the equivalent of a Softwork, not the cause for endless media attention and drama.
What should matter more is the fact that food shortages are now seemingly inevitable because of the war in Ukraine that will impact Europe and Africa severely. The energy crisis has only just started, too and has had a deadly cost: just look at Kharkiv, Sumi, Mariupol, Bucha etc...
Do you want to see what it looks like when we're fighting for food or water? Because that's what's likely as things continue this way.
Had people in this Industry been less complacent maybe automated farming would be further ahead we could afford to navel gaze a bit, but that is simply not the case and tech workers are the most spoiled, sheltered, and honestly out of touch of all the labour force because no one wants to have a hard conversation with them about the reality of the World they've helped create.
They intellectually prostituted themselves to company's like John Deere who farmers had to fight in court to be able to work on their own machinery, which could make us less food secure all for the profit of a few, and this didn't happen by accident: this happened because developers in the tech Industry were complacent, because the greedy execs on boards are too stupid to do it themselves so they need a lemming who won't ask questions with some coding skills to do it for them, and that is who I'm addressing here.