throaway23

The entire stackexchange and English Wikipedia dumps including all media is less than 90 Gig. Even low end cell phones have men expansion slots to 128 gig. Whatever you plan to do socially maintaining a local copy is not a storage issue. Non of the cloud ppl will tell you that though.

I find it hard to buy this argument today. Obama and Trump have proved getting support by pandering doesn't take us anywhere closer to solutions. But the current architecture of our socialnetworks and media keep promoting this notion. All I see happening is more pandering until the underlying architecture that reinforces this behaviour changes.

Yes because times have changed. People spend more time reacting to things they can't solve than on developing the discipline it takes to address them. Social media and news media are totally architected to encourage this kind of thinking and behaviour. And its costing us big.

Most people in the world aren't well prepped to deal with this overloading of complexity. Its like constantly bombarding a bunch of second graders with tenth grade problems. There are huge consequences to that playing out right now in society.

This concept that people with access to info will develop healthy ways to parse the info by themselves is total BS. Its like saying access to a library is a kid needs to get educated. If that were true why do we need teachers and schools.

With speed and scale of info delivery comes a responsibility unlike ever before to think about the unintended consequences. Its just not happening. People are falling over themselves reporting complex things whose solutions they barely understand.

Pointless stories that supposedly "educate and inform" the public, about something way above their pay grade seem to be the norm these days.

As a manager most of my time these days seems to get spent in reminding people they don't have to come up with constructive narratives for every complex problem the internet or life dumps on them.

If you are really interested in an issue put in the work. Find an expert. If the experts don't have great answers and you are still interested put in the work. This discipline seems to have evaporated these days.

Every one is programmed for instant gratification that comes from just reacting and being satisfied with the like button counter of the reaction.

Hard problems are hard. Its okay to say you have no idea how to solve it. But don't use it as an excuse to not get an expert involved.