[godelski]

The problem I see is that technology is not made for human life, it is made for money. Money was supposed to be the proxy, not the whole enchilada. There's so much low hanging fruit that will never get fixed because it has low monetary value but would help daily life. It's a lot of the little things that add up and compound. But you can't nickel and dime your way up because it's small things in big controlled platforms.

I'll give an example. At my university each term we do a "survey" to communicate what we want to teach. It has such brilliant questions as "for what academic year" that has a single option and "what you previously taught". There is no caching, so you answer these questions over and over.

Or how about every time I import a calendar I get a new copy of a holiday calendar and this doesn't automatically merge.

There's a million things like these that are small but take tons time and add frustration. They are small but they add up and combine. A million things that take 0.1s but you do every day will still take up your entire day. It just seems we get more and more of this while we're trying to make the next big thing but can never do when we think one quarter at a time