Title: Anyone else feeling utterly lost and disillusioned by the tech industry in 2022?<p>Speaking as a developer with over a decade of experience..<p>Web3 &#x2F;cryptocurrency &#x2F; NFTs make me feel like I’m taking crazy pills, turning even successful, veteran startup founders and respected VCs into shills.<p>Google search is worse, by nearly all accounts, than in was a few years ago.<p>Social media, more divisive than ever, is pressure testing the fabric of society.<p>Shopping on Amazon is like navigating a minefield of low quality garbage products flooded with fake reviews.<p>Streaming content is more abundant than ever, while the average content quality is, subjectively, rapidly diminishing.<p>On the job hunt within the past year, rarely I interviewed with a company that was working on anything even remotely interesting or groundbreaking.<p>As a consumer, I’m struggling to remember the last time I felt elated by a new app, website, or piece of tech.<p>Yet, despite all this, despite what feels like a downward trajectory, market caps are unfathomably high, and tech salaries are sitting at all time highs.<p>What’s going on?<p>How’s everyone else feeling?
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