On: Bob Moore, who founded Bob's Red Mill, has died

[morning-coffee]

Good post. (I appreciate the thoughtful responses and references, so thank you.)

> In tech, we have poisoned our own information supply

Curious to know more about what you mean by this, if you have the time... poisoned how? cheers!

[chubot → morning-coffee]

I mostly mean the common criticisms of Google for incentivizing web spam, and Facebook for pushing low quality / addictive / political content into people's feeds. (Though if you ask people outside the tech industry, they might not agree on these problems!)

The counterargument is that they both provide a ton of value, they didn't take anything away, and you don't have to use them. (defense of Google - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39054621 )

There's some truth to that, but it seems like we could be past peak social media (?) It feels like people are kinda treating it like smoking -- it was a poisonous fad that went too far, and it's wise to dial it back.