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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This touches on two concepts from @edzitron.com - the Rot Economy and the Business Idiot. Tech is out of ideas and needs to perform innovation to pump up stock. It signals innovation by putting new features into shit, even when no one needs them. Features like "MS Teams in your car."

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

But "Teams in your car" is doubly appealing to them because of how the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model works. Employers pay per-seat, so the more shit you can load onto that seat, the more you can wheedle out of them. Unsubscribing is effectively impossible - a multi-year $$$ project.

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The Rot Economy

At the center of everything I’ve written for the last few months (if not the last few years), sits a cancerous problem with the fabric of how capital is deployed in modern business. Public and private...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This feature neatly wraps up almost everything wrong with modern UX practice: a lot of well paid people got together in a room and skipped right over "why are we doing this" and "who could possibly want this" to "how do we make this More Usable."

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