We had the entire World Wide Web…

And we decided to spend all our time on ad platforms.

And now that’s basically all that’s left.

Why?

Kate and me: *talking about surveillance states*

Alexa: “sorry, I didn’t quite get that”

Us: “shut up, nobody’s talking to you”

Alexa: “ooops! I guess I dropped into the wrong conversation. I’ll retreat back to my digital corner and pretend I didn’t hear anything about surveillance states”

#dafuq
#dystopia

My echo just upgraded.

It has been offering the update after every command. “no.” I turned the upgrade prompt off. It kept pushing.

Finally, Amazon rolled out the update unilaterally and one day I was greeted with an irritating, uncanny valley voice.

Now that a few weeks have passed, I will admit the NLP capabilities are much stronger. That’s been positive.

But I don’t need a “Genuine People Personality”

If I ask for tonight’s low, I don’t need you editorializing the friggin’ weather!

If you’ve been applying endlessly and hearing nothing back, it’s not a personal failure.

The job market is soft, but more importantly, hiring is broken.

I spent time with recruiter Will Wegert unpacking what’s actually happening & what human paths still leak through a very inhuman system.

The result is a heartfelt, documentary-style field manual for surviving this tech job winter with dignity & clarity.

If this season has been hard, I hope this helps.

Please share

https://youtu.be/2aELt6WTYKY?si=BAolt5S7eFodzZdF

I think literally everything is way more complex than we want to pretend it is.

Or, at least all the complex things that all pretend are clear or merely complicated.