Uneventful

For the last year, I’ve had to do a bunch of event logistics for work, and… I really did not enjoy doing this work. It’s not a huge deal or anything (I wasn’t exactly working in a bauxite mine), and it really was the most useful thing I could have been doing in my function, […]

Competence Theater

I have worked at many places. Without exception, the biggest challenge every one of them faced during my time there was either: That’s it. When we addressed these things, we did better. When we didn’t, we did worse. Heck, even my own company was like this! I continually refused to address the first problem, and […]

Work is Weird, Weird is Hard

One cool thing about life, or at least my life, is that as I’ve gotten older and moved around, I’ve gotten to know some people who do jobs that I’ve always been aware of, but actually know very little about. The challenge with these kinds of jobs (and there are a lot of them) is […]

The Nothing App

I’m 43 years old, and I’ve been consuming technology products and working in tech basically my entire life, minus a year and a half where I worked for a catalog that sold garden gnomes. Nobody’s perfect. But the “tech industry”, if that’s still a thing we can demarcate, has some real existential problems right now, […]

Wholly Lawless

This is an insane sentence to read in a story on a federal court ruling: There is little to no evidence to support a “vague, uncorroborated” allegation that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was once in the MS-13 street gang, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis wrote. And in any case, she said, an immigration judge had expressly barred the […]

Intentionally Spread Thin

OpenAI is shoving more stuff out the door that seems very early, very ambitious, and very janky. OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post. “Using its own browser, it can look at a webpage […]