whoisearth

Spicy but I'll allow it

I mean are we surprised by any of this?

On the nose. Thank you for explaining it far more eloquently than I was able to.

Every org worth their weight will be doing a root cause analysis after this. So many lessons learned. We were impacted very minimally and only through external vendors.

Security software is by and large theatre. There I said it.

Install TempleOS in your production environment I guarantee no one is writing viruses for that lol

There is of course a difference in that you're talking about artistic creativity whereas I'm talking about programming creativity.

Your example works great for artistic creativity. On my side, not so much. I am fearful of people coding in python who do not know what they're coding as an example.

Counter counterpoint. Without the fundamentals you will struggle in understanding your capabilities.

You could be a virtuoso in playing the piano but without understanding how to read and write sheet music you will be hampering your ability to learn other instruments. Note I am not saying you can't. I'm saying it's harder.

I will be honest as a late GenX it's going to be interesting as my cohort retires because we were the last generation to remember before The Internet and grew up to understand the technology not just use it.

If you're my age or older please make sure you're teaching your young coworkers how to break things and put them back together without the aid of all the tools and resources they have at their fingertips now. Creativity thrives in adversity. Creativity is at risk when tools like ChatGPT are at their fingertips now.

/rant

Some people? The vast majority of the crypto eco system is grifters and get-rich-quick rubes.

I've had conversations with people about "how can you love the news so much? It's so negative and depressing!"

The best I've explained it is first and foremost you need to understand and appreciate we are a deeply flawed creature and there's a beauty in that. How could someone not love life for that? I am in a dingy alley having a tea right now I can smell garbage, I can hear the drone of the city around me, everything is stained. But if I look up the sky is beautiful and blue, cute girls are walking by, someone is smoking a flavoured cigar.

If you're unwilling to appreciate it all, you will struggle on appreciating any of it. Happiness is what you make of the world around you and if you are not willing to be happy inside no external event will change that.