“This is not a very important machine, and I could have just reimaged the MicroSD card and be done with it, but I was curious if I could recover from the error.”
How many deep insights can you really gain on an entire industry by working in it for 2 years? And starting off in a separate industry which just happens to be located within the other?
I agree that bluntness is often mishandled, but the sort of language in this article just reads as wildly disingenuous. Obfuscating your actual point (and visceral, human feelings/opinions/experience!) to hopefully confuse your subject into compliance.
Makes me think of that brain-dead article a few years back about how you should dodge offering support in close personal relationships. “I don’t have capacity,” “I’m not paid to perform emotional labour” etc. Sad! Promote humanity!
Rehearsed word soup. He clearly knows zero about the underlying technology. If he did understand it in any depth, he'd show a lot less certainty about the future.
I think it’s fair to comment on the audio. Great interview but I found it really difficult to follow along due to the sound quality. To the host with the big Shure mic in the middle of their shot: point it at your mouth!
I’m also the friend who brings up Cinemania once a month for no reason. Not literally the same one but I used to love it. Now, I just sit peering between ads at 2-3 lines of Fast Company articles while trying to work out how to close the autoplay video ad…
