Created Thursday 18 April 2024
Created Tuesday 05 December 2023
“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!”
Not difficult to see why; to the layperson:
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?
Mediocristan
v.
Extremistan
What we "expect"
Natural, normal, bell curves, from nature
The AVERAGE matters, you can predict things from it
Unnatural, human "technology and rules" creating EXTREMES
Black Swans, Long tails.
The *EXTREMES* cause change, and therefore unpredictable
read Nassim Nicholas Taleb
So "SCALE" and IT.
Tech takes jobs, or it's all artificial?
Adam Smith?
Karl Marx?
THORSTEIN VEBLEN?
Such an advance, it makes us rethink...
Such an advance, it makes us rethink...
maybe what was already happening?
It's ALREADY "democratized"
"Bullshit" jobs?
(technical term, kinda)
Linux "won," but now what?
Learn about it
Whether you like it or not
and
"conspiracy theories?"
This may be important.
A small, cheap Linux box with a hard drive
that you keep at your house, connected to the
internet.
Aka . . . Freedom instead of slavery.
Today,
Linux didn't have to DOMINATE to "win"
But maybe EVERYONE isn't into this?
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?
This is the new idea.
Platforms are everywhere;
and not all of them are evil
Steam v Netflix v Github v Roblox v Unity v Unreal
Thats what I do
Is it from a human right now? Do you really need it?
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.
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!)
I'm figuring that out too