https://www.abanhasan.net/tags/society/Recent content in Society on Aban HasanHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.abanhasan.net/posts/cowboys/Fri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.abanhasan.net/posts/cowboys/To be in software in 2025 is to be a cowboy in 1900. You’re living on the precipice of a bygone era, one that you barely comprehend is gone, as the industrial giants and their Pinkerton armies push you further west, towards an unknown horizon. The open range is closing, fences are going up, and the rules are changing. This isn’t just a shift; it’s a reckoning. Part I: The Outlaws of a Fading Frontier A.https://www.abanhasan.net/posts/cyber-slaves/Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000https://www.abanhasan.net/posts/cyber-slaves/Clarity. All we seek is clarity. Yet, it appears that everything around us – everything we see, everything we touch – is designed to be noisy, to disrupt every thought we have before it can fully form. Entire teams of researchers, scientists, psychologists devote their lives to finding and “pulling the right” switch in our minds, optimizing for engagement, for distraction. Our inherent capital – the finite time and vibrant youth we possess – is systematically siphoned off to feed the mainframe, the ever-hungry digital systems that thrive on our attention.