<story><title>Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer</title><url>http://theconversation.com/overworked-good-habits-not-holidays-are-the-answer-17744</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dota_fanatic</author><text>Imagine if all the 10x and 100x engineers were all on the same team.&lt;p&gt;Keep competition, but play for the same team. The losers are losers because they didn&amp;#x27;t create the best solution, but the losers are winners because they get to enjoy the spoils, since they&amp;#x27;re on the same team. Isn&amp;#x27;t status everything, after a point? Why can&amp;#x27;t the United States actually be united?&lt;p&gt;Develop universal human code, highly vetted, secure, and performant code; employable by everyone to satisfy the tedious data management and automation of everyday needs that arise as a consequence of our biology and community structure, like health care, administration, maker technology, infrastructure, education, and the creation of art. The amount of mediocre code getting created, and relied upon, is atrocious, and often the highest quality, most valuable software is completely inaccessible except for by some very small subset of the global population! It&amp;#x27;s some kind of collective insanity.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would say the worst of the present are written deeply into the structure of our societies, iterative processes spanning a very, very long time. These non-friendly, non-cooperative entities are very self-protective. It is only recently that it has been able to reap such unimaginable power.&lt;p&gt;How much harder does it become to create a better form of government, the longer this goes on? Our existing governments clearly can&amp;#x27;t handle current problems in any kind of respectable schedule, much less the ones that will result from the increasing acceleration of technological change. Perhaps whatever comes after human is already here, and it&amp;#x27;s eating us.</text></item><item><author>simplemath</author><text>Overworked?&lt;p&gt;Everyone is overworked. We live in a post scarcity industrial world, or very very close to it, and bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.&lt;p&gt;How much of the entire economy is predicated on grey money? How much of &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; time is indirectly consumed by this leviathan?&lt;p&gt;The more I think about it, the more i want to opt out of the entire fucking thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amelius</author><text>&amp;gt; Imagine if all the 10x and 100x engineers were all on the same team.&lt;p&gt;Yes, and imagine they were doing fundamental physics or medicine, instead of social media apps...</text></comment>
<story><title>Overworked? Good habits, not holidays, are the answer</title><url>http://theconversation.com/overworked-good-habits-not-holidays-are-the-answer-17744</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dota_fanatic</author><text>Imagine if all the 10x and 100x engineers were all on the same team.&lt;p&gt;Keep competition, but play for the same team. The losers are losers because they didn&amp;#x27;t create the best solution, but the losers are winners because they get to enjoy the spoils, since they&amp;#x27;re on the same team. Isn&amp;#x27;t status everything, after a point? Why can&amp;#x27;t the United States actually be united?&lt;p&gt;Develop universal human code, highly vetted, secure, and performant code; employable by everyone to satisfy the tedious data management and automation of everyday needs that arise as a consequence of our biology and community structure, like health care, administration, maker technology, infrastructure, education, and the creation of art. The amount of mediocre code getting created, and relied upon, is atrocious, and often the highest quality, most valuable software is completely inaccessible except for by some very small subset of the global population! It&amp;#x27;s some kind of collective insanity.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would say the worst of the present are written deeply into the structure of our societies, iterative processes spanning a very, very long time. These non-friendly, non-cooperative entities are very self-protective. It is only recently that it has been able to reap such unimaginable power.&lt;p&gt;How much harder does it become to create a better form of government, the longer this goes on? Our existing governments clearly can&amp;#x27;t handle current problems in any kind of respectable schedule, much less the ones that will result from the increasing acceleration of technological change. Perhaps whatever comes after human is already here, and it&amp;#x27;s eating us.</text></item><item><author>simplemath</author><text>Overworked?&lt;p&gt;Everyone is overworked. We live in a post scarcity industrial world, or very very close to it, and bad actors have gobbled up the spoils of the huge gains in productivity in the last 50 years.&lt;p&gt;How much of the entire economy is predicated on grey money? How much of &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; time is indirectly consumed by this leviathan?&lt;p&gt;The more I think about it, the more i want to opt out of the entire fucking thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jes5199</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure but I think part of the problem that you&amp;#x27;re describing may be &amp;quot;Baumol&amp;#x27;s cost disease&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Baumol%27s_cost_disease&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Baumol%27s_cost_disease&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>