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We got so good at extracting immediate value, we are optimizing ourselves to death.

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In so many ways....

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You know, it always annoyed me how ebook readers and blogs started to show us things such as "18 minutes to finish the chapter".

Or how video-games started to include achievements everywhere.

It's like someone's trying to transform my hobbies into jobs to be done.

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That's a beautiful text, Dave.

It reminded me of a sweet video where Neil deGrasse Tyson answers a kid's question during a talk. A question no adult would make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_za_b6haXQ

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That's very cute, and an interesting answer.

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Couldn’t agree more. Think there’s actually a market opportunity here. Lots of laid off managers + juniors who can’t find jobs + a near future explosion in demand for engineering talent

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I agree. You'd think our industry would have learned by now, but these boom or bust cycles look set to last until the sun expands to swallow the earth,

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