https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html

bit rot : data rot, data degradation

Platform Waste - apple cable,

Consumers love standards.

For-profit companies hate standards.

Discord, which is already starting, predictably, to decay.

Peak Dishwasher

Dishwashers achieved perfection, and it was no longer possible to improve them.

Before we moved, we had an older dishwasher that worked perfectly. No Internet, no Bluetooth, and the door latches worked flawlessly through thousands of runs.

Blockchain technology excites investors precisely because of how wasteful it is.