It is interesting to observe that any endeavor where attention is one of key metrics or key drivers. Regardless of the company size end up in the same hell pit of attention craving and optimization for it. Even small single person blogs that teach us to be a better person, engineer, or somethings are prone to that. Many of them, those I used, slowly became “Energy Vampires” to me constantly seeking for my attention. ...
In the last few years companies try to connect everything to the internet and make everything be software defined from door bells, and photo cameras to cars. There are a few bad things about it. These days every teeny-tiny piece of technology tries to be connected to the internet. This is usually sold by large, and not some large companies as some sort of convince so you can control everything from everywhere. The approach has its pluses but it also has its minuses. The shiny technological all connected future does not seem to me as appealing as we are told. ...