diff --git a/collapse.md b/collapse.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6ac50d --- /dev/null +++ b/collapse.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +# Collapse + +Collapse of our civilization is something that's very likely coming very soon: we are especially focusing on a very probable **technological collapse** (caused by badly designed technology) but of course clues point to it coming from many directions (ecological, economical, political, natural disaster such as coronal mass ejection etc.). + +In technological world a lot of people are concerned with the collapse, notable the [collapse OS](collapse_os.md), as operating system that's meant to run on simple hardware after the technological supply chain collapses and renders development of modern computers impossible. People like [Luke Smith](luke_smith.md) advocate (and practice) simple, independent off-grid living to be ready for a life after the collapse. Even [proprietary](proprietary.md) normies such as [Jonathan Blow](jonathan_blow.md) warn of a coming disaster (talk *Preventing the Collapse of Civilization*). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/productivity_cult.md b/productivity_cult.md index 4ef3042..1a1ac1b 100644 --- a/productivity_cult.md +++ b/productivity_cult.md @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ # Productivity Cult -Productivity cult is one of [modern](modern.md) capitalist religions which praises human productivity above everything, even happiness, well being, sanity etc. Kids nowadays are all about "how to be more productive", they make daily checklists, analyze tables of their weekly performance, give up sleep to study some useless shit required by the current market fluctuation. Productivity cult is all about voluntarily making oneself a slave to the system. \ No newline at end of file +Productivity cult is one of [modern](modern.md) capitalist religions which praises human productivity above everything, even happiness, well being, sanity etc. Kids nowadays are all about "how to be more productive", they make daily checklists, analyze tables of their weekly performance, give up sleep to study some useless shit required by the current market fluctuation. Productivity cult is all about voluntarily making oneself a slave to the system. + +Productivity is such a big deal because **programmers in fact actually getting exponentially less productive** due to overcomplicated buggy [bloat](bloat.md) and billions of frameworks needed to get basic thing done nowadays -- this has been pointed out by [Jonathan Blow](jonathan_blow.md) in his talk *Preventing the Collapse of Civilization* in which he refers to the video of [Ken Thompson](ken_thompson.md) talking about how he developed the [Unix](unix.md) operating system in **three weeks**. \ No newline at end of file