jtrek

It's because the decision makers are fucking stupid.

I would be happier at work if we could just solve interesting problems. Instead we have mandates from management to do nonsense, or work in nonsense ways.

The people at the top are so removed from how work gets done, and how normal people live, they're useless. Worse than useless.

LinkedIn should just be a big honey pot to get people into therapy and community service.

This seems a good excuse to repost his fascinating post about estrangement: https://issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons/

I read the meaning as someone thinking it weird to text back immediately. That was the offense. As if you should play it cool and wait to respond.

I personally respond quickly if I'm holding my phone and the message comes in, usually.

I mostly get music from Bandcamp. They have a pretty big library, but it's mostly newer and independent bands on there. You won't find, like, the beatles or taylor swift.

Sometimes I'll buy stuff directly from bands, if it's not on bandcamp, via their store or label or whatever. I used to get CDs, too, and rip them, but I haven't done that in a while.

I will continue to not use Spotify. Buying drm free music is a long term win.

You cannot assume that the people making decisions are rational, smart, people. They may believe falsehoods, and act accordingly. They may be chasing a hidden goal (eg: "I get a bonus if I hit X metric, so I'll kill good parts of the site to do it")

I worked at a place where management was like "we want to increase time on site", and the lead dev was like "I can just add loading spinners everywhere then". Luckily management was a little smarter and move involved than that, and didn't approve that strategy.

Conservatives value in-group solidarity more than almost anything else. That's like their defining characteristic.

Incidentally, that's almost always characteristic of a bad person. The antithesis of "love your neighbor", for example.

Unfortunately, most people wouldn't even understand what that means. And many wouldn't care. People don't seem to care about things, even as those things chew them up.

Getting peers on board is probably the way to go.

Because they're assholes. They don't care about making a good product. They care about making money. Even though they already have a lot of money, they need more. No matter the cost.

Sadly, most people won't learn anything from this. We need a way to get the average idiot informed.

The people pushing these AI chatbots should be liable. Make them do farm work. Reconnect them with the earth.