The next day everybody was a little bit less glued to their phone. They were discussing what The Blue Man had recently done. It was the first time a social media influencer was able to murder somebody on camera and not go to prison for it. Well not yet. Who...

He had good grades in college. Wasn't just one of those  book smart kids, but actually had a decent head. Decent, but not great. He knew he wasn't the type to be able to start his own business and get rich. So he graduated and got a job.

At his job...

He swallowed the  zinc pill with the water, gulped, and hoped he had enough in his belly. He had definitely eaten enough for breakfast, but it had been some time since then. Maybe he ought to have waited until he had lunch. Yes that would have been the safer move,...

The  Church of Twitter has had a busy week. The mobs either crowning Elon Musk as contemporary Martin Luther or another  billionaire buying his way into societal  infrastructure .

Independent of this, my friend remarked that if Facebook were to disappear tomorrow that there would be non net-negative impact to society....

Meta/Facebook is having a tough time. Facebook recently announced that it had fewer daily active users during the quarter for the first time ever. The company's stock dropped 25%, slicing off $230 billion of market cap--the most of any company ever. 

This company was too big even before it was...

One thing I love about software is how asymmetric the output is to the input. Maybe this is why when many developers  burnout they reach for things where the input and output are intimately linked. Things like  gardening and  baking bread. 

I love the latter too now. For the most...