The Financialization of Everything: Engineer discusses Windows 11; RushBabe49 applies it to another area.

Just recently, a new guy I follow on X did a very enlightening post on Windows 11, and how Microsoft succumbed to the trend toward the bean-counters running the show. Reproduced entirely below, with link to original X post at the bottom. He connects all the dots leading to the short-circuiting of the process of …

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Resilience, or…Starting a new career in middle age

Any complete career change is a crapshoot when you’re a middle-aged person. I have a Master’s degree which I never used, and from the time in the mid- 1970s when I graduated, I spent twelve years as a hospital pharmacy assistant, gaining one of the first licenses given out after they were required by Washington …

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