TempermentalAnomaly

30 minutes in: "And you don't have to change anything if your dishwasher is working for you. But honestly, you're probably not watching this if things are working for you."

Me: I live my life the way I want damn it!

Over the last fifteen years of having read him, I find myself coming back to him to gain clarity of our current situation. At first, I couldn't tell if he was a genius or mad man. I tilt towards genius now.

Edit ... Isn't that Hunter S. Thompson?

Baudrillard is always a joy to read.

Alight, alright. Now why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?

I'd go back in time and give my younger self a sports almanac telling him to place bets with it.

I think the distractions are partially a user issue and partially a company issue. Companies make their programs noisy with notifications by default that I only change it once I've found it annoying. They also make their program so bloated that they are slow to load and execute. By the time the app loads, I've lost my flow and now the tool is a nuisance. My mind is already cluttered. I don't need tech to slow it down.

I want those things and I want a phone that's easy to use, doesn't constantly advertise to me, and is more of a helpful tool than a distraction.

Thank you for writing that up! Much appreciated.

It’s tough because they are all very nuanced issues, every decision has trade offs, makes things better in one way worse than another.

This is one of the major truths of adulthood that keeps on coming up over and over again. The other is how do you know that some really knows what they say they know without investing time, money, and mental power into meeting them and knowing the basics of the subject all while being humble enough to know you don't know shit about it.

I'd love to hear your top points of what actually needs to happen.

Pandas would have survived if their habitat continued to be stable. Human encroachment destabilized their habitat.

I don't realize I'm being sarcastic until someone is offended. And then I tell them that I just figured out I was being sarcastic and they should have known before I knew. So now I preemptively put a /s at the end of every comment.

Edit: I forgot this /s

Ah! Makes sense!