But the scaffolding of those widgets (the algorithmic "personalized" ads & content model, and SaaS) has resulted in the overall experience being worse.

The industry's reaction was to take "user experience design" out back and shoot it, replacing it with "product design" (widget placers)

Donald Trump and George W Bush are very different in many ways but they have this in common: they were/are very appealing to large numbers of people and I would very much like to know what the fuck is wrong with every last one of them

This was Snoop at the Olympics for me

Unless you're talking like "the dishwasher and laundry/dryer freed up hours that were previously spent on labor"? But even that's acknowledging that social movements did the actual economic push

Lol, that's really funny considering Basketball is King in the triangle

I don't know a single engineer or technologist that thinks this. And I'm in the field

Because "Ferrari"

Best I can figure is that it's like wanting to play for the Celtics or Lakers if you grew up watching NBA hoops

I got into F1 post-Schumacher so I judge them off what they've done—or not—in recent history, and yeah...I don't get the appeal either

Tapping the sign