I work in a corporate tech setting and the amount of software solutions available has gotten way out of hand. The amount of money and time spent on trying to source them, make sure everyone is happy with them, inevitably deal with the disappointments, and often end up switching and migrating again is ridiculous.
That being said once I got over my initial resistance at ai I have found a lot of fun uses for it and it has saved me time at work that I actually do spend with my family. I’m wary of the future though Cal Newport has done some good pieces on it and showed the similarities to how Facebook and instagram started as fun, low impact, value adds to people’s lives and turned into something much worse when money needed to be made.
Best of luck on the tea blends though how exciting!!!
Even with the small amount of time I've spent in corporate America, I've seen an incredible amount of money dumped into new, "game-changing" software systems that are never fully implemented, and usually later abandoned when something "better" comes along. The waste is staggering (and these are often the same companies that can't seem to see their way clear to offer better benefits or salary packages...)
Everything costs something—whether it be our money, time, health, relationships, creativity, etc. I like your take on solving simple problems with a simple solutions. We like to think things are more complicated than they are sometimes don’t we ha!
I love the way you are thinking! The more we hand things over to tech, the easier it is to forget what we can do on our own. Some of the best moments are when you realize, "Hey, I actually want and CAN do this myself."
And I also feel that using so much technology is mentally and emotionally tiring, and it isn't always saving so much time as it's adding more “busy” that we didn't need in the first place, just like you said.
The mental exhaustion is real. I think that feeling incompetent and beholden to software to "fix" things for us is actually emotionally tiring in and of itself! Thanks for the comment :)
Great insights!
Thanks Vicky!
I work in a corporate tech setting and the amount of software solutions available has gotten way out of hand. The amount of money and time spent on trying to source them, make sure everyone is happy with them, inevitably deal with the disappointments, and often end up switching and migrating again is ridiculous.
That being said once I got over my initial resistance at ai I have found a lot of fun uses for it and it has saved me time at work that I actually do spend with my family. I’m wary of the future though Cal Newport has done some good pieces on it and showed the similarities to how Facebook and instagram started as fun, low impact, value adds to people’s lives and turned into something much worse when money needed to be made.
Best of luck on the tea blends though how exciting!!!
Even with the small amount of time I've spent in corporate America, I've seen an incredible amount of money dumped into new, "game-changing" software systems that are never fully implemented, and usually later abandoned when something "better" comes along. The waste is staggering (and these are often the same companies that can't seem to see their way clear to offer better benefits or salary packages...)
I would LOVE to be a customer for one of your custom tea blends!!!
I love hearing that, Kristin! Low-ish tech details are in this newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/bevytea/p/what-tea-is-good-for-_____?r=evv7i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Everything costs something—whether it be our money, time, health, relationships, creativity, etc. I like your take on solving simple problems with a simple solutions. We like to think things are more complicated than they are sometimes don’t we ha!
We definitely do, and there's an entire industry that's built up around being able to convince us things are much more complicated than they are!
I love the way you are thinking! The more we hand things over to tech, the easier it is to forget what we can do on our own. Some of the best moments are when you realize, "Hey, I actually want and CAN do this myself."
And I also feel that using so much technology is mentally and emotionally tiring, and it isn't always saving so much time as it's adding more “busy” that we didn't need in the first place, just like you said.
The mental exhaustion is real. I think that feeling incompetent and beholden to software to "fix" things for us is actually emotionally tiring in and of itself! Thanks for the comment :)
everyone should read this!
Thanks Jack!