An text-based online RPG (inspired by muds of yesteryear) inhabited by LLM-driven NPCs which takes place in the zombie-infested wild west (side project for about 2 years now, should be live soon )
https://www.blightwood.online
I also long for the ugly web (for the lack of a better term), and think about it a lot. I often wonder how much of my ego and/or attachment for being an individual is the foundation of this sentiment.
As a developer, I even see this echoing through the tech evolution of web development (inaccessible SPAs which take 4 seconds to load and where you can't effectively use tabs, a sea of popovers and overlays, etc.).
Surely, there will be niche places where this ideology remains (and those communities will become stronger, as a result), but maybe the fact that the ugly web is no longer the only web makes us early internet pioneers feel less special.
There are significant differences between psychedelics and anti-depressants, both mechanically and when it involves long-term treatment planning and monetization.
Although research is quite limited due to regulatory constraints, John Hopkins has particularly interesting research on the subject (https://hopkinspsychedelic.org), with ongoing trials.
I think you're right about the shamanic ideal - at its current state, this doesn't seem to be the kind of treatment you can scale through the form of a pill.
In Germany recording folks without their consent is illegal (or at least not admissible in courts) in many contexts. It is possible to build incentives that don't lead towards mass surveillance.
Great points, the pendulum is still swinging so I expect more and more pro-remote content in the coming years.
I personally prefer mostly remote work, but I think it's much harder to pull off - there are no play books on how to do it and if you don't do it from the start it becomes exponentially more difficulty to execute correctly.
I've built 4-5 web apps over the last 5 years that have required zero/little maintenance.
There are only three reasons I've been drawn into some projects:
1) A bug occurs and needs to be fixed
2) An external dependency breaks something
- Write tests and/or have high confidence in code/infrastructure behavior (using tools you know really well helps). Avoid cognitive complexity in code constructs aggressively.
- Limit integration w/ 3rd parties EXCEPT the ones that reduce your goal of zero-maintenance.
- Create interfaces/tooling which make automating tasks easy.
- Get notified when things break