Entropy always wins

Have you ever noticed that so many things in our daily lives often just… don’t work? How the years go by, and the number of things that don’t work doesn’t seem to be getting any better?

My wife and I bought a fixer upper a few years ago. We’re incredibly grateful for this place. Still, not a day goes by that something doesn’t need fixing.

Things always break. We fix them, something new breaks.

My job as a designer is to create things. This necessarily requires interacting with a lot of software, and some hardware.

Along with Ruben I could write a list of things that frustrate me daily. This blog is the output of my biggest and smallest annoyances.

Do you think that’s part of the reason so many of us are anxious, exhausted, and a bit angry thesedays? We have to use this tech more and more (and more), and the stuff just doesn’t work. They’re like microagressions that build up over the course of a day, until I reach a point where I say NO MORE! So I reach for the TV remote to unwind for a bit, and ABC iView has crashed.

Often friends and family ask for tech support. I oblige, somewhat begrudgingly. Not because of any issue with the person asking, but because of a general fatigue with constantly wrestling with broken things.

My somewhat tongue-in-cheek answer is that entropy helps keep me in business. Since things always break and fall apart I can find work fixing things and designing new things.

Sometimes the biggest annoyances and frustrations are opportunities.

Via Rubenerd.