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I know how you feel: There is no end in sight for learning, and the signal-to-noise ratio is low (aka: percentage of actual breakthroughs to rehashes of old thi
by osm3000 3y ago
I know how you feel: There is no end in sight for learning, and the signal-to-noise ratio is low (aka: percentage of actual breakthroughs to rehashes of old things, or pretention of progress).
And the exposure to this "noise" - which is unavoidable - leads to the feeling of being overwhelmed. I could not start anything, because, what is the point?
That is one of the reasons why I am building those little isolated islands for myself: my personal projects that I want to do. I am trying to keep at it for a couple of years now, and there was some epic failures, but when it works, it feels really good.
Also, I am trying - sometimes unsuccessfully - to isolate the state of the industry (or my work) from my hobby. Work wise, it is laughable at best: so much talent is being wasted. I don't want to claim a high ground here by saying that this waste was avoidable, but really, it was (and is, most of the time).
- namaria 3y agoI feel like complexity has been weaponized by whole industries, by companies and by professionals. It doesn't require a conspiracy: it's easier to let complexity creep in, it makes people feel smart and makes clients captive to tools they don't understand well enough to replace and ecosystems that preclude migrating away from. The rationale I keep hearing is always: "I just wanna solve the immediate problem and move on", and the complaints are also very consistent: "Systems are hard to understand, to reason about and to change". Yet no-one seems to acknowledge the cause-effect relationship and just pretend like all of this is inevitable.