Author realizes he can't do anything worthwhile with his technical skills that isn't provided by the market (reading emails on phones). The market is working,

Author realizes he can't do anything worthwhile with his technical skills that isn't provided by the market (reading emails on phones). The market is working, but you lose that sense of elite-ness and accomplishment. I'll bet that many people who used to get excited about building Linux based home media servers are now satisfied with Netflix or Prime.