Have worked with Sabre and early GUI interfaces for travel agents. It has only taken 30 years for WebJet to deliver something consumers could use and has displaced swathes of travel agents.
It would be more useful to determine why insurance premiums are rising faster than almost every other homeowner expense. At the same time noting that insurance companies are making massive profits and squandering millions on executive salaries and advertising.
I think the more critical question is how well compiler writers can update the heuristics which identify the instruction sequences that benefit from the architectural features. Last I looked, Intel has several thousand intrinsics which must be explicitly invoked to make use of specific features.
I suspect that heavily optimised code either uses intrinsics or carefully written assembler code.
I get the impression you are not technically challenged at your work. Not an uncommon dynamic when working for a company for which software is a means to an end.
In order to dig deep into one area, you might need to take on a "hobby" project that forces you to deep dive in a chosen area. Looking at your current areas of experience, I would choose either GPU or DSP programming. By being CPU adjacent areas, specialist skills are more likely help your career.
My jaded view is that many over-enthusiastic people are surrendering their autonomy technology. We've seen the impact of delegating our self-esteem to social media. Now having a machine think for us?
Yank out the power cord. Go outside and experience the reality of nature. It is more humane paced.
Yes, tenants can be a pain. The laws have increasingly become less investor friendly. In my experience having a good managing agents provides a valuable buffer. The real money is made when you cash out and collect the capital gains. Of course, you need to tax accountant to make sure you don't give the government most of your gains.
I think it is due to the wide disparity between potential members.
For example, consider an agricultural co-op, e.g. wheat growers. The members of the co-op have farms of differing sizes, use similar techniques, have more or less comparable conditions. They produce grain which has a commodity level set price. The main differentiator between members of the co-op is the volume of grain they produce. But on the basis of the commodity pricing it is a relatively level playing field.
Now consider any tech company. Products have vastly different pricing - ranging from free to millions of $ (or whatever your currency) for enterprise levels. The "producers" vary in capability from newbies to rock-star programmers. Plus you need management to facilitate communications, etc. Everywhere you look, you find disparity.
The closest you get to a tech co-op is a startup with a small group of people who respect one another's contribution and follow a shared vision. Unfortunately as soon as you introduce outside investors inequality seeps in.
Not in SV, not even in the USA. So my experience is probably different.
Whilst I was pulling down a good salary, invested in apartments to rent out.
Banks are happy to lend if you have a steady income from a job.
When I reached critical mass, sold them off one by one, quit the job and living a good life. Not IC level, but zero stress.
A good income is a hedonistic trap if you spend it on booze, cars, babes and parties.
Back in the day when I replaced the battery in my MBP, I recall the battery was a significant part of the total weight.
To build an all day running ultra-light would probably require a magnesium case, but magnesium and lithium are both flammable metals. Probably not ideal on an aeroplane. Using more plastic doesn't meet the premium requirement.
Smart doorbells and thermostats that upgraded in the night often became a nuisance or an expensive brick. But a faulty software upgrade on a car can kill you and others.
Car company execs need to take a chill pill followed by a reality serum. Monetizing subscription based basic features and delivering in-car advertising is the absolutely worst way to go.
As consumers we need to stop buying into the bells, whistles and trinkets and demand essential and safe transportation.
What's the point? No matter how detailed and comprehensive the instructions and steps by the AI, you still don't get a PBJ sandwich to eat. You have to go to the kitchen and do it yourself.
Good on you for rising up to the ranks of Linux/BSD.
You just need to recognize that not everybody aspires to be competent with lower-levels of hardware and software that Apple makes that much more difficult. Most Apple users are content to use apps written by others and that is as far as their interest goes.
An analogy is the car market. Most people don't care how the car works, etc. They just want to get to places. If you only need to drive to the shops and do minimal errands, you don't even need a truck - a sedan will do just fine. Same with computers, lots of different market segments with distinct needs and expectations.
I spent a part of my career supporting IBM PC/XT, PC/AT and then Compaq and the many PC clones.
Microsoft, as its name implies, started out and cuturally was always a software company. By the time Microsoft started dabbling in hardware it was seen as a competitor by the many software licencees. Microsoft could never control the hardware side of their platform like Apple has.
The other factor is that Apple ditched the proprietary OS and went down the Unix/BSD and derivatives path. MacOS is effectively a FreeBSD derivative overlaid with a custom desktop.
Without a quasi-portable OS at the core, there is no way that Apple could have made the switches from Motorola 68000 to PowerPC to Intel to ARM.
Windows, on the other hand, is running NT which is basically a port of DEC VMS. Didn't work out well for DEC/Compaq/HP.