Bill

Remember when you called customer service and an actual human answered? Now you call, get told your call is “very important,” spend 14 minutes arguing with a robot that keeps saying “I didn’t quite get that,” press 7 different buttons, get transferred twice, and somehow end up in a department that sells extended warranties for lawn mowers. Then they ask for your account number, your zip code, the last four digits of your phone number, your first pet’s nickname, and probably a blood sample… just so they can tell you to “try turning it off and back on.” By the time a real person finally answers, you’ve forgotten what you were mad about and aged three years. Back then, customer service solved problems. Now customer service is the problem.

Just listened to this new Bruce Springsteen song “Streets of Minneapolis.” Absolute garbage. This is the same guy who used to write songs about real people, working-class struggles, small towns, broken dreams, getting by when life punches you in the teeth. That’s why people respected his music. Now it just sounds like political propaganda wrapped in a guitar riff. Instead of telling stories, it feels like he’s pushing an agenda. And honestly, it’s disappointing. When artists start using their fame as a megaphone for politics instead of music, the songs stop feeling real. Bruce used to write songs you could feel in your bones. Now it feels like he’s lecturing people. Total sellout moment. Anyway… here’s the video. Yeah, I know I’m technically promoting it by posting it, but you should hear it for yourself. Sometimes the best way to see how far someone’s fallen is to just listen.

The funny thing about getting older is you stop caring about impressing people and start caring about peace and quiet.

I think the speed is the real difference this time. Past tech shifts happened over decades. AI feels like it’s compressing that timeline into just a few years, which doesn’t give people much time to adapt. The jobs may change instead of disappearing, but the transition could be rough for a lot of people.