[thsijustin]

Meanwhile 80% of the previous generations Fortune 500 are gone.

Everything dies. This simple minded confidence game we require each other play to validate usefulness is getting old.

You’re one of seven billion humans who will die, one of millions of programmers to pick from to prop up trade of Daddy Dollars.

You’re not sticking around either and cannot prove your contributions were truly more valuable than anyone else’s (models have been built to ascertain which human leadership traits and which technology make us more productive and all became too complex to understand).

Don’t blink though; keep pretending we’re onto something with folksy anecdotes, and nostalgia for past wins.