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History is full of examples of quiet, brilliant people who contribute amazing works to society, but never see any money and ultimately fail to influence decisions when they are important.

For example Alexander Grothendieck, Einstien, Van Gogh, to some extent Tesla.

Norbert Wiener suggests that from a game theoretic standpoint - uncovering the secrets of the universe is a long game with an honorable opponent - the laws of physics don't actively try to deceive us. However the political games of business and policy are full of fast-thinking schemers that do.

Perhaps there is a cognitive limit to how well you can do either.

I feel like google enshittified itself with SEO and bloat. Maybe if we just re-made the original and changed the business model it would be good again.

It feels like they forced him to buy it, and now they are tarring and feathering him.

I noticed a few responses that looked pretty suspicious. It would be shockingly nasty in my opinion to ever do this, but given how shallow and fake society is, maybe it's becoming commonplace, I noticed at least one app on poe for texting.

Just noticed a lot of ex-humanities people becoming like "grifters" sort of. Like the recruiting industry.

They seem to position themselves as some kind of "coach", "career coach", source of advice, and use psychobabble and BS to prey on your insecurity and get money out of the "startup" world.

I have about 3 Yoe webdev/+physics/mech eng degree. Worked a few contracts then my own Saas thing, now pretty burned out. Don't really need funding or a team, just a bit of time.

Was thinking to just to dumb manual labour while I recover/finish my product. I don't think I can hack a 3 month job hunt for a "legit" job and I feel like taking tech contracts will also create a lot of mental overhead since I'm in the headspace for my own work right now.

Maybe tutoring would be better than Ubereats gig work, but honestly a lot of software contracts seem to be turned into BS gig work and at least with manual labour you are doing something real.

Looking for validation and ideas.

For example - some of Google's acquisitions are shut down, but were demonstrably good. Do new competitors get bought and shut down also?

Often people say things like "government doesn't have the resources to police X". With increasing automation it seems like they don't need the resources. Can this be quantified into some kind of "orwellian threshold"? Where the efficiency of social control is such that there is no way out?

Metrics are dicey, but for longterm projects it can be useful to see progress. I'm looking for tools a bit more technical than kanban or tickets. Just what's out there.