What you are chasing is your god or a spiritual quest.
As you don't have a conception of a global god on top of all the other you swing from one to another: finding myself, doing hard, things, robotics, climate change, girlfriend, pleasure, etc.
Those can all be good things, but they are not the top thing.
"You will have no other god beside me"
The central God is you idea of good, the things beyond your reach.
You keep your girlfriend, she become your wife and you have kids.
You can climb montains but it doesn't need to be himalaya, etc.
Maybe your big thing will still end up around physics
Everything in it's place. In the proper amount.
Now if you loose one thing it's not the end of your world.
This keep you centered and avoid the crazy swings.
As we can see in this tale, his god was the startup or money. Once he had more than enought no motivation was left, he killed his god and had to find another one. This happen to a lot of people that reach their goal, instead of being happy they are emotionaly destroyed.
Google became an asset of the government.
By selecting what you see they control what you think, what you buy who you vote for, similar to legacy media.
This conspiracy theory is broken, because governments around the world have been struggling more than previously to get reelected. It might be that Google has been used to "select what you see so they control what you think, what you buy who you vote for, similar to legacy media", but they're not doing so under the control of government.
This was proven in the Twitter files.
The same was happening in Facebook and Google.
There also independant research that prove this. hard to Google ;)
Basicaly it's proven that just switching the autocomplete when you search Trump or Kamala can sway the votes of undecided by huge margin.
The seek those and switch the suggestion were it matter.
They also incite people to go vote depending on the choice and buch of other dirty tricks.
You are right that it no longer work. In the end truth will always win because it connect to reality.
Having just X switching to truth will swarm the world.
Why do we continue down that path, are we that stupid collectively?
We know the fertility of men is falling year after year, we know this, yet things go on as if it's not important.
We could calmly debate the amount on the limit, but at this point we know the job we have to do.
Jira and the modern cargo cult agile make me hate software development.
The important part is to create a team, people working together, helping each other, trusting each other.
Anything that increase trust and organic collaboration is useful, most of the rest is a waste of time.
Ex: if your estimates are used once to put the blame on someone, congratulation you just destroyed the morale and trust of the whole team. Now everyone will start to lie and pad their estimates, the game is now how to behave to cover your ass and the one of your friends.
Average cars got bigger and heavier with a higher line of sight since even the 90s, making them exponentially more dangerous for everyone outside them. Cars are the second leading cause of child mortality in the US
Link below has some interesting plots. One shows child pedestrian deaths per 100k population going steadily down since 70s. Yet adult pedestrian deaths have recently ticked up.
It is possible that kids spending more time in front of screens is at least partly an effect of it not being safe for them to go outside on their own, rather than then kids spending time in front of screens simply being the cause of them not playing outside.
The US is waking up from that strange nightmare, going back to self gouvernance.
Don't be afraid of Trump, look instead at what is happening at home.
(all big US monopolies are trojan horses, same is true for China)