I think you are right. Depth of experience has always seemed more rewarding than breadth of experience.
I think there is value to vacation and travel for relaxation purposes. But you are definitely right that "world-view enhancing" is travel industry propaganda.
Maybe if you live somewhere for a year and integrate with the culture there is something to be gained. But a week in Italy is just for fun, I think it's silly when people claim otherwise.
Building a community and established roots seems much more meaningful than travelling to many different places, at least to me.
As someone on the border of being Gen Z, I think there is some truth to what you are saying. Especially on the not paying part. Lots of dream jobs are hiring.
If I think of what jobs would be most meaningful to me, it is things that are not paying. I could be a computer science teacher and after a long career still make less than I did in my first software job out of college.
If I want to afford to own a house or have a family, it's clear which career choice I have to make.
I recently finished Chelsea Manning's Readme.txt and I thought it was great. The themes are about two different types of "trans." Transparency in government and trans rights. I think both topics typically attract different audiences but the book was a fascinating look at both. And if you have interest in both definitely worth checking out.
While it wasn't the primary purpose, I also really enjoyed it from a personal perspective to Manning's upbringing. I have not seen the unique dynamic of growing up in a digitally connected America captured as well as it was in this book. The feeling of immense loneliness in real life but a deep connectedness online resonated very strongly with me.
Hostility may have been too strong of a choice of word. It's less the arguments or sentiments of anti-car advocates but more the language used online.
For example, r/fuckcars is massive. A large subreddit might not be considered mainstream, but it does have massive reach. A lot of people see this as one of their first exposures to car-free communities and do not feel welcomed by it.
I think it's somewhat of an optics issue, but it is very hard to find walkability communities online that aren't using terms like "car-brain". I know that these terms are targeted at a certain type of car owner, but without being familiar with the car-free community this is not always clear and can be a turn-off to car-owners who may be curious about learning more.
Hostility may have been too strong of a choice of word. It's less the arguments or sentiments of anti-car advocates but more the language used online.
For example, r/fuckcars is massive. A large subreddit might not be considered mainstream, but it does have massive reach. A lot of people see this as one of their first exposures to car-free communities and do not feel welcomed by it.
I think it's somewhat of an optics issue, but it is very hard to find walkability communities online that aren't using terms like "car-brain". I know that these terms are targeted at a certain type of car owner, but without being familiar with the car-free community this is not always clear and can be a turn-off to car-owners who may be curious about learning more.
I am glad there is a growing enthusiasm for walkable cities in the US. It's something I've become very passionate about lately.
For those that are interested in learning more about the topic, I highly highly recommend the City Nerd youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@CityNerd.
I find a lot of arguments for for walkability tend to be emotional or needlessly hostile towards car owners. City Nerd takes a much more analytical approach and shares the data he uses for his videos, I think that's something most of HackerNews can appreciate.
Question for security experts: Is this really that much more secure than a local only password manager, like KeePass? It is fun, but the inconvenience of it feels like its not worth the benefits.
I feel like this can really vary by person. Some things may be more important to others.
I personally think seeking ways to improve transit and reduce car dependency is an important task. A lot of other commentors mention electric cars. These are conflicting goals but both solve similar problems and may be worthwhile to work on.
If you are interested in seeing what jobs are actually out there, I think "80,000 Hours" is a good place to start: https://80000hours.org/start-here/?int_campaign=2021-12--pri.... I don't think they are always perfect, but I think the idea is in the right place and their job board often has roles that are working on important problems for humanity.
This has always been a problem it seems. Microsoft now handles grammar and spelling themselves, but originally they licensed software called CorrecText.
This article from when CorrecText originally released in the 80s, https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/06/business/the-executive-co..., ends with discussion saying "One big problem in designing Correctext,... has been 'overflagging,' or excessive sensitivity to minor errors."
Seems like that problem still hasn't been solved...
One example I often see to support the value of technical writing is MATLAB.
Among software engineers (and maybe even Hacker News) there is sometimes a distaste for MATLAB. But it still remains a widely used language and it is very respected outside of software engineering in research and engineering. One of the main benefits I see about MATLAB is that the documentation and support are so strong and make it easy to get started, especially for people without programming backgrounds.
For people who doubt the value of documentation, I think looking at MATLAB and Simulink (a billion dollar company) is a good example of the value of technical writing.
I think GPT-4 (or 3.5 if you are trying to save a few dollars) would be best. OpenAI's models are strong for summarizing text, you would just need to scrape it yourself and pass it to the API.
If you are lucky enough to get off the plugin waitlist, you can even use the web browsing plugin for GPT-4 and that should let you just pass in a link.
I think there is value to vacation and travel for relaxation purposes. But you are definitely right that "world-view enhancing" is travel industry propaganda.
Maybe if you live somewhere for a year and integrate with the culture there is something to be gained. But a week in Italy is just for fun, I think it's silly when people claim otherwise.
Building a community and established roots seems much more meaningful than travelling to many different places, at least to me.