Yvonne Lam

@elizayer@mastodon.social More and more I think people are bad at understanding what creates value. The time squeeze makes that worse: people latch onto potential value-crating activities harder without testing them, doing those activities adds noise the the system, so people get hungrier to do only the things that create value, lather, rinse, repeat.

@elizayer@mastodon.social I read Jenny Odell's Saving Time earlier this year. It made me think hard about how broken the way the software industry thinks about time is, and why.

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com I would like it if, when I said, "I would like more cat pictures, please," they took that seriously.

@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com I have noticed that every time I say, "That would be an actual useful thing that AI could do," it's about something I don't want to do in the first place, and moreover, don't think I should have to. Like click "do not track me or sell/share my data" buttons on every single website. I never want tracking or data exposure. I would like to set that once globally and be done.

@elizayer@mastodon.social I have posted about time and software on various occasions, so you're probably not hallucinating!

@trochee@dair-community.social @paninid@mastodon.world @louis@ingenthron.social It makes me grind my teeth when people do that too.

@elizayer@mastodon.social I don't know how visible my bsky posts are (they aren't private), but https://bsky.app/profile/yvonnezlam.bsky.social/post/3lxkhp4igv22m