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I'm bored of tech, apps, gadgets and all, despite the coollness factor. I was fascinated by technology when I was growing up, but I feel like the world's pressi
by remir 6y ago
I'm bored of tech, apps, gadgets and all, despite the coollness factor. I was fascinated by technology when I was growing up, but I feel like the world's pressing needs and problems are not addressed because there's no "good money" to be made by solving them, which is absurd.
I wish beauty, wisdom and optimization would be better valued so we could find pleasure in designing things and cities with beautiful architectures with minimal negative impact on the environment. I wish we could redefine our position in the world as member of an ecosystem we should care for, instead of being merely consumers and "eyeballs" for advertisers.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoYou might enjoy the Software Disenchantment post we discussed 4 months ago, which was about the state of the software industry (rather than about personal burnout). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929709
- krebs_liebhaber 6y agoI agree. Just how much sheer talent and brainpower is being wasted in the Valley, where it's being used to create web apps that fade into irrelevance 90% of the time? How much would we gain as a society if we applied all of this talent to the climate crisis, or medicine, or actual physical engineering? Software is eating the world and shitting it out.