Irony
Irony is in the eye of the beholder, inspiring humor and/or contempt.
Defining the human condition, happiness is an arithmetic function. It's hard to get an "A" here - we're always searching, hunting, hoping... optimizing. Few mortals have changed the rules and achieved 100% (aka enlightenment).
When a technology, product, service, enterprise, or nation delivers irony en masse, it's a shock akin to ice waterboarding. It can come in many forms, but always fails 2-3 trilemma criteria at the system level while purporting to win at a lower level. Irony is the consequence of shooting the engineer and shipping the product; it's unfortunate, but understandable.
What's unacceptable is continuous disappointment rather than improvement. Substituting corn based ethanol has higher environmental impact, not lower. Putting incandescent lightbulbs on EVs for a decade is uninspired, made worse on a product that is inferior to the incumbent on every metric. When our electric mobility solutions are akin to riding a disposable BIC razor to work, we're creating the next single use plastic catastrophe. If a business has proven itself sociopathic, the corporation deserves destruction, not IPO. As a republic, we've become impotent, exactly because of the failure of our institutions to adequately protect the longest surviving constitution.
Pain is part of life; suffering is optional. We cannot afford to repeat these mistakes, digging deeper rabbit holes and inspiring more complex quagmires. We must do better.
Seek truth. Boycott irony. Reject mediocrity by doing it better yourself.
Overcome!
Defining the human condition, happiness is an arithmetic function. It's hard to get an "A" here - we're always searching, hunting, hoping... optimizing. Few mortals have changed the rules and achieved 100% (aka enlightenment).
When a technology, product, service, enterprise, or nation delivers irony en masse, it's a shock akin to ice waterboarding. It can come in many forms, but always fails 2-3 trilemma criteria at the system level while purporting to win at a lower level. Irony is the consequence of shooting the engineer and shipping the product; it's unfortunate, but understandable.
What's unacceptable is continuous disappointment rather than improvement. Substituting corn based ethanol has higher environmental impact, not lower. Putting incandescent lightbulbs on EVs for a decade is uninspired, made worse on a product that is inferior to the incumbent on every metric. When our electric mobility solutions are akin to riding a disposable BIC razor to work, we're creating the next single use plastic catastrophe. If a business has proven itself sociopathic, the corporation deserves destruction, not IPO. As a republic, we've become impotent, exactly because of the failure of our institutions to adequately protect the longest surviving constitution.
Pain is part of life; suffering is optional. We cannot afford to repeat these mistakes, digging deeper rabbit holes and inspiring more complex quagmires. We must do better.
Seek truth. Boycott irony. Reject mediocrity by doing it better yourself.
Overcome!
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