Consumption software and production software has diverged tremendously over the past three decades. It used to be that the software you used to read the news an

Consumption software and production software has diverged tremendously over the past three decades. It used to be that the software you used to read the news and the software you used to write the news were both fairly clunky and required your brain to be on. Today, production software is still about the same but consumption software has been polished to the point of being completely effortless and largely brainless. Just keep scrolling. Consumer uses of software are 100:1 in favor of consumption which now teaches essentially no useful skills because we got good at UX and good UX means the user doesn’t have to think.