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We need fewer sources of drama. As long as there are still sources of drama it serves a purpose.

• jlouis 10y ago
  You may wish for fewer sources of drama, but there is always the risk that your wish will not be granted. One particular problem is that drama has a certain amount of "background radiation" in the world, a noise floor you can't eliminate. The right solution is to have a gate in the sense that you just ignore things underneath the noise floor. Lowering drama is possible, but elimination is impossible IMO. Hence, you end up in a situation where the perpetually outraged keep being outraged, because there is always some kind of noise floor you can grab onto. You need to gauge "drama relative to other situations" in order to figure out where we stand. And once you do, you will realize that some people are feeding off of perpetual outrage. In short, I think we need to define when we activate the gate. And for me personally, the amount of drama in tech is actually not that high. Try Sales&Marketing for a change :) It is just that social media is an excellent amplifier, so now we have far more focus than you had back in the 80'es and 90'es where the situation is likely to have been worse.