“Huh, I wonder why everyone is so unhappy and unstable. Hey, why is everything run so inefficiently, doesn’t anyone know how to work together anymore? Why is everything falling apart? Oh well, just human nature I guess.”

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        Ever since I was a kid writing my first programs in BASIC on the Apple IIe I always dreamed of distilling business databases into actionable and concise insights.

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          Unironically that’s what got me into the situation I’m in currently, except the actionable insights are either impossible to deliver with the existing data or they are delivered to decisionmakers who then proceed to ignore them.

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      Yeah, as it turns out there are vanishingly few non-terrible software jobs. The best ones are like… b2b administrative software for more-benign industries, b2c apps that haven’t yet enshittified, or FOSS projects that have actual funding