NewWrappingUp

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:


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?



AI


It's ALREADY "democratized"




AI, Money, Bubble?

...yikes



AI - Deeper




AI Psychosis


AI Art


The unavoidable


Slop will be everywhere, it's already here


AI Art..but


It's ALWAYS going to be really hard to make
money or a living to do something that s
omeone else will do for free FOR FUN


AI Art


I'm not too worried;
see .e.g
Photoshop
Photography
etc...


AI Art


Real talk, right now I see:


Mediocres worried
Geniuses excited


(might it just be the new turntables)


AI stuff and you


Tech wise, no worries


Way more solutions, which is good because


WAY MORE PROBLEMS



AI overinvestment


Very obvious.




LOL

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Are they all


"Bullshit" jobs?


(technical term, kinda)


Software


Linux "won," but now what?



Cryptocurrency?


Learn about it, maybe


Whether you like it or not


"Flippening imminent?"


"Bitcoin"
vs
"Ethereum and all the others?"


Tech knowledge


and


"conspiracy theories?"



Where is the underground?


This may be important.


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?