I still enjoy it when I can meet it on my terms. I think maybe a factor is whether you own it, or it owns you. Back in 1980, if you sat down at a computer and

I still enjoy it when I can meet it on my terms. I think maybe a factor is whether you own it, or it owns you. Back in 1980, if you sat down at a computer and did something with it, you were special, because very few people did that. Today, when you sit down at a computer, you are just one of the many suffering multitudes whose time and attention are eaten up by systems that either deliberately or inadvertently own you. It has become a treadmill, and making that stuff has become a treadmill too. I'm reminded that 100 years ago, there was a huge workforce of "clerks" who were basically human information processors. Tech workers are today's clerks. In 1980, your tech life wasn't worth anybody else owning and controlling. Today it is. I can go right back to that world by stripping away the gratuitous complexity and control. An Arduino can entertain me for days.