Limit scale. Enjoy your craft. Become immune to hype and "what's popular," instead focusing on "what otherwise inaccessible experience can we make possible for our customers?"

When you let the money guys take the wheel (not the "passionate nerd" types), it inevitably (and I would argue necessarily to keep the lights on for such a big org) results in a shift to spreadsheet brain.

If you haven't seen it, watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi and see if that way of life resonates. Also check out his interview with René Redzepi from Noma. Lots of great insight into how focusing on your craft implicitly creates the opportunity for creating and delivering great things to others.

Anecdotally, this seems to be the new "mission statement" of many companies.

Tedious, but makes the "npm hacked again" posts mostly moot.

Me and my roommates living room in college [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/WuJ60dAHyc4?si=bLVmWEM9tTgtA1MF

(I think I'm reading this the right way but if not feel free to correct).

In a word: pain.

Until there's a legitimate threat to their well-being (emotional, psychological, or financial), the lessons won't be truly "learned." Until you know the true cost of a decision, you're flying high.

Older engineers have dealt with this organically so it's kind of encoded into their DNA. The very reason certain things aren't done (or a certain way) is because that pain has already been felt/encouraged learning a better way.

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It was a far more sane (and exciting) experience.

Overall, that was the last really "old world" experience I had that reminded me why technology isn't always the right solution to a problem. Since then it's felt like this [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/fnVQlwKAuLk?si=hVr30353SlKfnyRz&t=106

Nine Inch Nails/Trent Reznor did this in 2018 and it was infinitely better (I also met a lot of people just standing in line—we recognized each other at the show later and ended up throwing each other around in the mosh pit—a great time) [1].

[1] https://www.nin.com/tickets2018/

Buying into the fear is how you railroad yourself long-term. Using it while maintaining a healthy skepticism around the more radical claims means not being blindsided long-term.

Now as far as hating the turbo-zealots who smugly try to shove it down your throat in an attempt to protect their bags...

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Business is business and you have to be mindful of costs. But good lord, is it that hard to understand that treating your employees with basic decency is positive for your company?

You can tell that they know the music is about to stop and they're all desperate to find a chair. They didn't update their playbook for the next generation and now their cards are showing.

Short-term: oh boy. Long-term: phew.