I Stopped Trusting Big Tech
The tools we use every day aren't free. We pay with our data, our attention, and our trust. Here's what I use instead.
The tools we use every day aren't free. We pay with our data, our attention, and our trust. Here's what I use instead.
Most of us just want to live a life with opportunities to grow, learn, work, have a family, and enjoy as much as possible our short lives on this beautiful planet. All we want is tomorrow.
I asked an AI for side project ideas. Instead of answering, it asked why I assumed the project had to be software at all. That friction was useful.
I bought Visual Studio 6.0 in a box while working as a LAN engineer. A year later, I was a programmer in Texas. Reading didn't get me there. Tinkering did. Yet I still fall into the productivity trap—organizing instead of doing.
La productividad se ha convertido en una religión moderna, y como todas las religiones, tiene sus trampas. Es muy fácil pensar que ser productivo significa estar haciendo algo para adelantar el trabajo o un proyecto, y en lugar de disfrutar el momento, nos dedicamos a 'ser productivos
In a world where beginnings are frictionless and exits carry no cost, staying demands a kind of commitment that no longer feels supported by default.