Novelty gratification
I like new things. The excitement from a new phone, tablet, or laptop is always there. What can it do? What is new? This feeling usually leaves after a few days, and I am a couple of hundred Euros poorer.… Read More »Novelty gratification
Recommended Watch: Debugging Microservices in Production
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/debugging-microservices-production
Recommended Read: The accidental tyranny of user interfaces
“YouTube’s Android app features perhaps the most egregious set of insulting user interface decisions. The first relates to individual entries for search results, subscriptions or other lists. Such a list contains a series of video previews that contain (today) an… Read More »Recommended Read: The accidental tyranny of user interfaces
Recommended Read: On Being A Senior Engineer
“Generation X (and even more so generation Y) are cultures of immediate gratification. I’ve worked with a staggering number of engineers that expect the “career path” to take them to the highest ranks of the engineering group inside 5 years… Read More »Recommended Read: On Being A Senior Engineer
Recommended Read: Where are the builders?
“Why are you building a graphics card inside minecraft instead of inside NVIDIA?”
Recommended Read: Is Israel Committing Genocide?
The New York Review of Books Thu, Jun 6, 2024 Is Israel Committing Genocide? https://pressreader.com/article/281496461375744
Recommended Read: Big Germany, What Now?
The New York Review of Books Thu, May 23, 2024 Big Germany, What Now? https://pressreader.com/article/281556590890734
Recommended Read: The Problem with Utopias
"As for the inhabitants of utopian fiction, they are never credible characters, with emotional depth or psychological complexity, precisely because they are without flaws. Throughout the 500 years of the genre, the characters uniformly come across as either brainwashed or… Read More »Recommended Read: The Problem with Utopias