You’re half-bright and you’ve got potential. I could see working with you. But you technical people have a disease: it’s called ‘solutionism.’ You see every challenge as a problem and every problem as having a solution and every solution as being a piece of technology. You hare off after those solutions without ever stopping to see whether there’s another, worse problem that’ll burst into life the moment the current one is ‘solved.’ In fact, those new problems are good news! They’re what you solutionists call ‘a feature, not a bug,’ because when you’ve got a new problem, you’ve got another
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