This feels like such a defeatist take. The ideas time had come. For luck to strike you have to be in the market for it. Just keep shipping and playing. We don’t “all have our role to play” but there are a lot of roles that need playing
Built myself a silly little menubar pomodoro timer tamagotchi thing for mac. I’ve been slowly going through and building highly personalized versions of my day to day apps. This is the first one I polished up enough to share. Free if anyone’s interested. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/time-flies-focus-timer/id67582...
I actually think this is the same point as who you’re responding to. If the human vs ai factor didn’t matter, you wouldn’t care if it was the human or ai on your co-op. The differences are subtle but meaningful and will always play a role in how we choose experiences
check out Bill Bryson’s “at home” if you’re looking for something a little less specific to refrigeration and more fun narration of similar novel life/home inventions. To give a sense of depth, refrigeration is probably a few pages. It’s very high level but a fun read about things you’ve forgotten to think about around the house
The fediverse folks are violently against any efforts for discoverability. They like the high bar for discovering and joining. Any attempt gets brigaded and shut down quickly
I do not believe in predetermined roles. My version is to find the thing you’re excited to do and not the outcome you’re excited to have.