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I worked at Google for a while, and I felt kind of like a modern Abraham in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Silicon Valley runs on what I like to call "bullshit alchemy". In the Middle Ages, you had these alchemists trying to turn lead into gold and such. In the 21st century, we have a new set of alchemists turning bullshit into billions of dollars. Unlike their medieval forebears, they are wildly successful.
Is Slack really worth billions? No way. Do developers at Google deserve $15000 coffee machines while the people making their food work on their feet all day and struggle to make ends meet? No.
It is all a very sick joke.
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I'd suggest The Utopia of Rules. A friend's favorite is The Democracy Project, which is also excellent.
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The rant from 2013 was later expanded to a full-length book, Bullshit Jobs, and I highly recommend it. Really, I recommend anything Graeber has written. He had a real gift. I was saddened to learn of his passing last year.
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This is great! I'm looking forward to the next installment.
It wasn't mentioned in the article, but the README for the associated repo says that clang will work for building. You'll also need lld if you go down that route.
Back in the 70s, smoking was actually recommended by mental health professionals in some cases. My grandmother picked up the habit in her 30s on the advice of a psychiatrist.
Anecdotally for me, it seems to be helpful for anxiety etc. I started in my mid-teens. It was a decent "social lubricant" for an awkward little nerd.
Still, any benefit (perceived or otherwise) of smoking is outweighed by all of the drawbacks.