I could go have an iced tea and read a magazine, or I could hover over my desk and watch a glmm struggle to converge. Sadly, I know exactly what I'll be doing for the next half hour.
The prevailing drive in tech is to "remove friction" from our lives, eventually transforming us into frictionless spheres floating through a vacuum of loneliness
I find it revealing that so many Americans conceive of success in terms of ever more cartoonish *scale* rather than new *objectives.* A truck. No, a bigger truck. No, the biggest truck you can imagine. A house. No, a bigger house. No, the biggest McMansion of all. A boat. No, a bigger boat. No...