MystikIncarnate
I hope you and yours are safe and healthy. Hopefully no fatalities in your family and friend group on the local area.
Take care out there.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, corporations treat you like a product. Whether you buy something from them or not. People are becoming the product that they sell.
I usually don't care very much until it starts to affect pricing for stuff based on some algorithms impression of how desperate you are. That algorithm started with travel (airlines, online booking fees for hotels and stuff) and has expanded.
If I need a new computer because mine isn't working, I don't really care that advertisers come at me with ads for their computer products. I need one, they want me to buy one, it's marketing. No worries.
If I need a new computer and suddenly all the prices for new systems goes up by $100 because it thinks I'm desperate enough to pay that, now I have a problem.
I still don't like them selling my data, and I'll do what I can to avoid it, but marketing is going to do marketing things.
As a tech savvy person, it's already a gaping chasm. Making it wider and deeper isn't a huge change.
Very recently, I was chatting with a coworker who is a dad, and he said, "I love my kids, but don't do it"
Bit of a different vibe from that guy.
Assert dominance, do it again.
I would expect that Gabe is trying to hedge his bets and make the company more of a co-op, where several key figures in the company as well as himself, own the majority, so that there's accountability in what everyone decides.
That way if someone's kid ends up inheriting stock in valve, there's a way to block them out of major decisions if there's a need to.
If that's indeed what's happening, then it's a very long-term play by Gabe. He's looking so fast ahead, so that long after he's departed the company, the values that make valve great (and successful) will endure.
Actually explained like you would to a 5yo.
Awesome job.
My partners car has a touch screen, but knobs dials and buttons for all the climate features.
The touch screen is just the infotainment stuff.
That's about as far as I want it to go. I don't need a large format display in my vehicle. I don't want my speed, turn signal indicator, and climate controls on a massive display that takes up 1/3rd of the dash. Their car has a 8" or so, infotainment display.... Great for Android auto/Apple carplay, with navigation so I can get my directions without having to meddle with my phone, or a clunky phone mount wobbling around.
But that's where I draw the line. Just give me the fancy infotainment screen, leave everything else the way it is.
Interesting take.
Can I ask how long something must exist before we can love and appreciate it?
I still miss my old school flip phone, but mobile phones haven't been a thing for half as long as cars so I guess I can't be a technology lover?
You're weird.
..... I'M JUST SAYING.
IDK that I'd be so quick to refer to people who don't have kids as selfish.... Certainly there are selfish people that shouldn't have kids for that reason, but not all people who are willingly childless, are selfish.