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I worked as a systems admin, sometimes as a consultant, between 1992-1999. First and foremost in my mind was that I simply couldn't explain the things I did to other people. I didn't produce any tangible goods, I didn't develop software and produce an app, or a website. I might bring a briefcase in to work, but there was usually nothing to put in it, and nothing to take home. I had some friends and coworkers who coul…
Partly by interjecting a scene where Margot Robbie explains the mortgage bond market and short selling while wearing very little, but people seemed to like that movie.
Albeit not a movie specifically, I feel like Halt and Catch Fire did the dotcom thing well.
Albeit not a movie specifically, I feel like Halt and Catch Fire did the dotcom thing well.
Quite easily one of the most thrilling and beautiful technology related productions of all time. An absolute must see.
But my career has that same mix of cutting edge potential mixed with human limitations making it stressful for me too.
Very well done
> and then it shattered so ridiculously and kinda of setup the housing bubble and ZIRP period.
Not really, the long-term hollowing out of the economy outside of a very narrow slice at the top that culminated in housing collapse and Great Recession was more a result of tax and other policy shifts that led to the 2001-2007 expansion having horrible distributional characteristics, and not to the dot-com bust itself and the short and shallow 2001 recession it produced.