Social media as a disease, serene burgers and an arrow of time

The creator of the Linux nucleus and the GIT version Linus Torvalds gave Linux Journal program interviews . He gave the same quarter a century ago, when the Linux core and the operating systems based on it did not win the whole world. In 1994, Linus Torvalds was primarily a developer. Now he is a visitor and one of the most influential people in the field of software. And he really does not like the social media of the modern world.

When Torvalds was asked what he would like to change in the current network world, he replied that nothing in the technological sense; But he hates the so -called social media - Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Torvalds calls social media a “disease”, which encourages poor behavior. Like many of its other statements, this is thought out. This is how Torvalds argues his opinion:

• On the network, no one sees humor and sarcasm, does not pay attention to the reaction of the interlocutor.
• The mechanisms of Laikan and repost are just garbage. Unlike email, the author does not invest his work in the post. Quality control is also absent. Everything is imprisoned against quality control - to clickbeat, emotional reaction, to discussing the protozoa and the widest topics.
• If you add anonymity, it turns out completely disgusting.

Linus Torvalds admitted that, in his opinion, anonymity has been overestimated. In addition, she is often confused with privacy, and these are different things:

• Anonymity is required to a person who can tell an important threat, but whose personality cannot be disclosed;
• privacy should not deprive other opportunities to check the identity;
• If the personality is not confirmed, the statement should not be shown to others - it should not be given to like or repost.

It should be noted that Linus Torvalds is an outside observer. It is not present in social media, and all his experience is based on an unsuccessful Google+.

2 burgers that you need to find out this week

Two companies this week announced the release of serene burgers, where the cutlet created from plant components is almost impossible to distinguish from the present.

• The first burger under the brand Impossible Whopper is released by Burger King. According to FT (paid access), the new menu item will be tested in 59 restaurants in St. Louis. This Vopper was developed by the Impossible startup, which presented its updated product in early 2019 at the CES in Las Vegas.
• Demand for the serene burger has already exceeded the initial expectations, and Impossible attracted over $ 475 million for 8 years of its existence.
• The second burger, Nestle production, is called Incredible Burger. He will go to European supermarkets during April under the Garden Gourmet brand. The version for Americans will appear at the end of the year under the Awesome Burger brand.
• The sales volumes of this achievement of biotic and agritech over the next years can reach $ 1 billion.

+2 to productivity

• As contextual planning (also known as block planning) can increase your productivity. One of the key techniques is “inviolable days” dedicated to only one major occupation. These, of course, are not necessarily days - you can make a couple of hours of deep immersion in the work on the schedule.
• If contextual planning does not help, try to take on the table and become a minimalist, labor organization experts recommend .

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