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The illustrative example to me is the construction of railroads at the beginning of the Industrial revolution. Unquestionably useful, unquestionably important there were nevertheless at least 3 speculative financial bubbles centered on railway construction.

What about blackberries made them unsuitable for social media apps?

How would this even work? Get it out of the app stores, fine. But presumably the URL would still be accessible? Likewise sideloading it onto Android devices?

This analogy doesn't hold for "WWIII" though, right? By this analogy, I would call the current crisis "Cold War II".

I gained a lot of clarity when I differentiated "programming" from "shipping code". I still enjoy the former, but the latter is becoming harder and harder to do at large corporations.

I burned out hard towards the end of last year as an engineer. Fortunately, this preceded 4 months of paternity leave during which I was really able to think hard about what I wanted out of my career. I came back to a different position at the same company, as a PM on a new team. I'm enjoying the role for now, but I'm not sure if I'll convert permanently. If I do go back to being a SWE, it will be at a smaller company/on a smaller team where shipping code takes less overhead.

Generally my advice to anyone feeling burned out these days is to take a long break if they can, and use that mental space to strategize your next move. I appreciate that not everyone is in a position to do this, though.

100%. The answer wouldn't be "join our marketing team", it would be "you aren't a culture fit".

I mean, a few guys stayed in orbit on subsequent lunar missions, but you're right, Collins was the first.

I feel like the covid pandemic has definitively answered the question "What's better, government policy and collective action, or a small well-capitalized group implementing a technological solution?"

Efforts like this are the only way we make a dent in climate change.