It seems like this company is on its way to a toxic workplace. And you are just an employee, not a co-owner.
You even mentioned earlier in another submission that you would like to start own business.
Focus on that! Look for a new job in the meantime if you need it.
I believe it has some advantages that while you are waiting at the train station your clock shows exactly the same time as the train conductor’s several miles away from you.
in the US or parts of Europe you could wait there for 10m past the scheduled time and barely notice. In Japan if the train clock disagreed with the station clock by 30s, causing the train to arrive 30s late, they'd have to write all of the passengers excuse notes for why they were late to work.
Though I absolutely agree, you should learn to ignore the things that disturbs.
Today the AI, last year the crypto, two years ago the NFT, three years ago the Covid… there always will be something.
Just skip them right in the head.
And we are not old. Just oldschool. But it’s good.
I came for this comment. This.
Author did not limited social media, just cheating themselves.
Just delete your accounts and never go back. The family, the workmates, the children’s school can reach you when it really needed. All other stuff is just litter what they share there.
I am really looking forward when this becomes a base topic in the elementary schools (including tips how to use mobile apps). Right now it’s self-evident that children learn using Chrome and Google
I have worked in that front 5 years ago. Schoolsec, that was our name. Our target niche was elementary schools in southeast Brazil. It didn't work. Most of the schools we spoke to didn't even understand what we were talking about, so they couldn't assess the risk and, finally, realize the value of our work.
Of course, as years pass, the need for more "digital self-defense" increases at all levels. Maybe one day we'll hear of someone who had pulled it off by presenting a great value prop for this kind of service.
> (And I didn't need analytics to understand something wasn't working lol.)
I mean, you did need feedback though - you read a comment on HN, which gave you the feedback, with upvotes on the comment indicating that it's probably an issue that more people care about.
One significant difference is that the feedback was "active", though: Someone actively decided to write the comment and other people probably actively decided to upvote it. I fully agree that this is a way better way of feedback than effectively putting up hidden cameras everywhere and surveiling every step of your users without them knowing.
you can't interpolate user behavior on something that isn't used, but you can pretty quickly find the most affected groups to further remediate why that'd be the case
it's been pretty disappointing recently reading comments around here and slowly building the understanding that resistance to these types of systems haven't come from old-school "freedom" driven mindsets that spot and call out patterns that obstruct user agency or security to enable a culture of accountability VS a slow crawl to glorifying luddism born from simple apprehension to understanding the use of any additional changes in how development is viewed today
this discussion chain of "stats=bad actually." makes that distinction a little more clear
To the author: may I suggest you make page order vertical instead, so it is more natural to scroll; and maybe just use CSS scroll snapping to achieve the similar effect? (Also, when I scroll past the final page I don't want to be redirected to homepage automatically :-)
The idea is neat, but the implementation is a bit too over-engineered and hard to use. Hope this helps change that!
