NewWrappingUp

Created Thursday 18 April 2024

WrappingUp

Created Tuesday 05 December 2023

A little "management"


Technology Disconnect


“I've got a great idea,” says the non-

programmer, “I just need a geek to code it up

for me and we (meaning I) will make

millions!”

Technology Disconnect

Not difficult to see why; to the layperson:

executed

The Mythical Man Month

If 1 person can dig 1 ditch in 1 day--

Then 2 people can dig 2 in a 1 day

8 people can dig 1 in an hour.

But what about websites or apps?


Scale, Long Tails, Black Swans


Mediocristan

v.

Extremistan

"Mediocristan"


What we "expect"

Natural, normal, bell curves, from nature

The AVERAGE matters, you can predict things from it

"Extremistan"


Unnatural, human "technology and rules" creating EXTREMES

Black Swans, Long tails.

The *EXTREMES* cause change, and therefore unpredictable

Again


read Nassim Nicholas Taleb


Software, IT, and SCALE


So "SCALE" and IT.

Tech takes jobs, or it's all artificial?

Which econ world?


Adam Smith?
Karl Marx?
THORSTEIN VEBLEN?

AI?


Such an advance, it makes us rethink...


AI?


Such an advance, it makes us rethink...

maybe what was already happening?


Are they all


"Bullshit" jobs?

(technical term, kinda)


Software


Linux "won," but now what?

Big OLD Idea


A small, cheap Linux box with a hard drive

that you keep at your house, connected to the

internet.

Big OLD Idea

Aka . . . Freedom instead of slavery.


Freedombox and Self-Hosting


Today,

Tomorrow?

Who owns your data?


But


Linux didn't have to DOMINATE to "win"

And I hate to admit it


But maybe EVERYONE isn't into this?

BUT BUT


Maybe it's not that YOU have to do it..

But you should know SOMEONE who does?

(as in, do you know a car girl/guy?

Is it about ethical platforms?


This is the new idea.

Platforms are everywhere;

and not all of them are evil

Evaluate


Steam v Netflix v Github v Roblox v Unity v Unreal

Okay, what to do?



Turn off notifications


Thats what I do

Is it from a human right now? Do you really need it?

Curate your content


You may not have a lot of choices in your life:

But one you do:

What you shove in your brain in your free
time.

You have COMPLETE control over this.

Occasional junk food is fine, but maintain a
healthy diet.


Curate your Content (by you)


If you care about it, get it in your hand. Your
actual physical hand.

Buy a hard drive (or two!) and copy those
pictures, movies, songs etc.

(syncthing!)

What else?


I'm figuring that out too


What else?



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