Jose's sort of loosely (un)structured thoughts that are longer and more relevant than a single tweet

  I am extremely tired of sensationalist politics that brainwash people into thinking they are making a difference. Climate change is the most clear case: Climate change is an important issue - a technological one, I believe, because I am techno-optimistic* - and one full of laws that are nothing but sensationalist takes and laws that fool people into thinking they are making a difference. Banning plastic straws, plastic shopping bags, and now all chargers that are not USB C, all while we burn more coal than usual and shut down nuclear power plants. This is what I like to call " story-driven politics ": Devising laws and political discourse based on measures that seem to move the needle rather than ones that actually move the needle. This technique is especially popular because when we are talking about complex systems like the ones politicians have to deal with, telling a good story is often far easier than actually solving the problem. Sitting in the EU parliament in Brusse...

 Something really sad happening right now: I'm watching friends who are great human beings full of life, ideas, skills, and passions, get absolutely swallowed by devoting their time to soulless big corporations where their uniqueness is not valued. My friend, you are a whole ass human being. Do you really want to spend your 23rd year of life supposedly optimising the culture or a bank that would run exactly the same way if you weren't there? If I wanna fry my brain, I can think of at least a dozen better ways to do it than to stare at shitty internal communication tools for 80% of my awake time. Reading " Bullshit jobs " a few years ago was excellent because I swore that I'd never put myself or others in that position. If my life is to continue down this path, I'll be a CEO for along time because I love to get people together and build stuff. If any of the people I look out for ever feel like their brains are rotting away because of what they are paid to do, t...