Notices by thudfactor (thudfactor@hachyderm.io), page 2

A $400 AI toothbrush. The world has gone insane.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/oral-b-bricks-ability-to-set-up-alexa-on-230-smart-toothbrush/

I love Cal Newport's take on "Slow Productivity," but it is remarkably hard to accomplish something like that when the business culture as it stands brings every financial and emotional weapon to bear to push people into burnout-inducing behavior.

To get that moving, most companies are going to need some organized group to force the issue. A team, unified in purpose and goal, to make the work both sustainable and financially rewarding.

I wonder what we'd call that.

I used to think agile / scrum was the path there, and I still do to a certain extent. Agile processes paired with true, company-wide commitment to agile values can certainly get us there.

But agile processes implemented with *opposition* to transparency, a sustainable working pace, and worker-led planning is the quickest route to burnout.

Guess which is more common.

@multiverseofbadness Let's not talk about what has probably happened in that bed.

@multiverseofbadness Hey, at least that way you’re your own boss.

I think it’s a great idea for OpenAI to train its models on StackOverflow’s massive trove of obsolete technical information.

If I was a professional comedian a decade or two past my prime, I bet I would *also* desperately cling to the "woke audience" excuse instead of acknowledge that my jokes just aren't fucking funny.

@multiverseofbadness Sounds like a setup for a Weird Al song.