anything that irritates me

2020-12-03 - the road less traveled | painting yourself into a corner | hidden costs

  • Doing things in a non-standard way means:
    • you may have a hard time getting help
    • people may not understand what you have done
    • you may not get done in time
    • you may deal with problems that nobody else has
    • people may not be able to relate to what you are doing
    • you may learn a lot
    • you may create something that nobody else has
  • Thursdays suck

2020-10-23 - things I have known myself to be sick of

  • hearing people gripe or argue about the behavior of huge corporations instead of spending resources on smaller projects/vendors/companies who are better positioned to behave properly ( it’s much more fun to think we have a say in big brother’s doings versus support little brother’s half-baked WIP )

  • the behavior of big corporations / organizations / systems
    • omg my Nexus 6P has been a nightmare and it seems I haven’t had a reliable phone in a while if not ever
    • the Pixel 4 XL update to Android 11 causes multiple apps to crash and it seems the maker of the phone doesn’t really care
    • immigration process and all it’s paperwork suck
    • any time I intend to do something significant in my life, there is always some todo list of drudgery associated; I struggle to see how it benfits anyone
      • enroll kids in school
      • make a visit to the doctor or dentist
      • file taxes
    • operating systems suck
    • enterprise code sucks
    • cars suck
    • computers suck
    • government sucks

  • weekends being so short sucks

  • Monday’s suck

  • working for “the man” sucks

  • people suck

  • speaking/writing sucks

  • listening sucks

  • discussions about all of these suck after about 1-2 hours of debating them
    • religion
    • philosophy
    • government
    • theoretical physics
    • gender issues
  • see Close Your Mind: The Game