“We didn't pay you for boring!” they said.
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I once enraged a client because I promised during a meeting to build them a “big, boring software platform.” They took me to a fancy bar to yell at me. Software already ate the world, and digested it, and pooped out a new world, and that's where we're living. You can't just say “ software is eating the world” and chill. For several weeks this year it was tough to buy pretzels. Distances are becoming more expensive to traverse. Borders aren't evaporating into the cloud they're getting thicker. Because the internet begat the web, which begat social, which begat Trump, which begat all that and the Supreme Court, which unbegat Roe, and all I'm saying is that technology can't be responsible for only one kind of progress and wash its robot hands of the other. Technologists are on the hook for that one. I'm thinking of the photo of the dude wearing horns in the Senate chamber. Smartphones, drones, teledildonics, IoT-whatever, let's blow up the world again. Need more progress? Just make more technology. Young people would find some technology-enabled new thing VCs would plump it up with cash, building a marketplace for new buyers and sellers and established players would hilariously stumble all over themselves trying to compete. America was so boring that, for decades, the tech industry was able to make disruption its mantra. America was so boring for so long that other countries held their wealth in dollars, and oil oligarchs hoarded empty apartments in Manhattan. On January 6, 2021, they Slacked the US team, “Your coup is ridiculous.”Īll of which gave me a great appreciation for how boring America was.
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We rented spare apartments for folks having trouble getting home ( not necessary, but thanks) and figured out how to pay people when the banks were melting ( appreciate it). Then we learned that people were powering their houses with DIY solar or diesel generators ( don't mention it) and getting internet through mobile hot spots ( almost always works fine). First the financial system collapsed ( no problem, the team said), then the pandemic hit hard ( we're doing OK), then Beirut was partially destroyed in a port explosion ( a terrible day, but we'll get through it). And not just in the normal “wedged between factions in an eternal global crisis zone” way. Great software engineers over there, excellent front-end talent.
My cofounder is Lebanese, so we built a team in Beirut with an office right on the Levantine Sea.
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