While far from concise, this article is one of the best summaries of the state of modern technology I've read in a long time. I've followed some of his analysis of the AI market and generally he's got a good understanding of what's at play. It's amusing (and somewhat depressing) to consider how much I've internalized the current state of affairs as "normal" and have developed my own methods for compensating or navigating around the toxicity of commercial tech. Read this and then his "Rot Economy" article. I hadn't read this before, thanks to @Chamomile for posting.
Many years back, I kept my ipod classic in an old sock to protect it while it banged around inside my bag. My buddy made fun of me for it, little did he know that my sense of fashion was just far ahead of its time.
I'm going to disagree with you a bit here. I've seen first hand when intelligent people use all their additional cognitive ability to create rationalizations and pseudo-logical interpretations of questionable facts to avoid challenging their own assumptions. It takes a good dose of humility/integrity to admit that you were wrong and be willing to change course. That's not a feature of intelligence, at least not in the realm where it is typically measured.
...with ads in maps and paying their big tech bribe money...
No kidding. I've been an Apple customer since '05 and they've lost me. It's not this one thing but rather, the overall, gradual decline in quality along the way. I help a lot of people with their tech devices and here are a few things that have gone disasterously bad for me just this year: getting a large photo library OUT of iCloud and onto a single Mac; restoring a borked iOS device from an on-line backup; TimeMachine drive that won't use, spotlight won't stop indexing and was impossible to run first aid with out a wipe/reformat; failed iOS upgrades; iPhone that won't notify the user about incoming messages, sometimes calls, etc.; iOS minor updates that will only download the FULL installer (~8GB worth, every. single. time.). There have been many others. I've heard other comment on this UI update making it harder to read in various situations.
Apple stuff used to be pretty bomb-proof and really hit the mark because it really did "just work". I'm seriously thinking about just bailing out entirely from their ecosystem to Linux, since I know I won't have the OS actively getting in my way when I need to fix it (I'm a 30 year Unix/Linux sysadmin). I was never a true believer but used their stuff because it allowed me to avoid more system work off the clock. I can't help but wonder how Mr. Jobs would have seen the current state of things today.
Showing up early or on time for any meeting, other than a client or outside collaborator , communicates to everyone involved that you have nothing better to do with your time.
You can't teach someone who is unwilling to learn. Living in a rural area, I know way too many Trump supporters for my own comfort and I've never once heard anyone expressing regret over their support. Not one. They seem to continually repeat the excuse du jour presented by Leavitt, Fox or whatever conservative echo chamber they subscribe to. At this point, it's 100% willful ignorance and I've run out of optimism.
most of those people would forget you exist if you leave Facebook
This is 100% true. I dropped facebook about 10 years back. If I'm not your "friend" without facebook, then you're not really my friend. Getting out of that cesspool of drama and ignorance was one of the best moves I've made.
One possibility: Guys will keep the same crack-sweaty shorts in their locker and use them over and over without washing them. It doesn't take too many doing that for the aura take over the locker room. Some guys really have no sense of personal hygiene.
If it's specifically the showers, then the staff are not cleaning things up properly.
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There's nothing in this entire discussion that should be taken even remotely seriously.