The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more
Sometimes the key to happiness isn’t finding the next upgrade, but appreciating what’s already in front of you. We’re prone to undervaluing what we have and overvaluing what we don’t have yet covet. Sometimes the grass is greener where you water it.
To some extent, we understand what led HashiCorp in this direction. They are trying to maintain a delicate balance: on the one hand, they are creating amazing value by providing high quality, free, open source software to a community of thousands of developers; on the other hand, they are trying to run a sustainable business, so they need to... See more