So a tweet I made today on Birdsite blew up. Specifically this:

"When engineering is about “solving interesting problems” and never about why these are problems, you get stuff like Uber.”

I think it touched a nerve. But it’s true. Like the whole Jeff Goldblum line in Jurassic Park, developers all preoccupied about whether they could do a thing and not about whether they should.

And this is a huge. fucking. problem.

@sanspoint I've seen someone describe it as "Silicon Valley is very good at solving problems it has created itself, generally by replacing it with another"