The clearly-titled Project Management: A Surefire Way to Kill Your Software Product by Steven Lowe hits the nail on the head. If you've ever found yourself frustrated or overwhelmed by a process—purporting to be agile or otherwise—you'll find this essay is a refreshing read.

Apple has made it clear that they just don't care about professional media customers anymore, unless they are the kind that can buy $4000 of new gear every year.

My Late 2013 MacBook Pro has kept up fine with my work needs (typically, developing distributed applications with IntelliJ IDEA on Lightbend's stack). After near five years, I'm considering an upgrade once a new model's released with more memory. Every year? Not for me, but I have seen an upgrade cycle that rapid with commodity machines.

Just create money out of thin air.

It already is. It's a human invention, unless you can show it to me in a physics or chemistry textbook? It's like the Matrix, just a consensual hallucination mediated by computers.

It's hard to imagine a more delusional or disingenuous remark. We create money because it's a store of value that's easier to trade than the materials and services—which can not be created out of thin air—it represents.

[W]e are not processing cryptocurrency purchases ... due to the ... risk involved.

But chronic overspending on rapidly-depreciating consumer products—resulting in credit card abusers becoming saddled with nearly insurmountable debt—remains permissible.

Offices are redundant and counterproductive for information workers. Technology has made obsolete the burden of relocating ourselves geographically every day—at great expense in terms of time, money, and stress—to shuffle data around computers at (nearly) the speed of light. I'll readily concede that in-person collaboration is valuable, but hardly a constant necessity. Let's stop blocking roadways, wasting energy, and building surplus office space. Let's meet face-to-face only when needed, and otherwise work in comfortable, distraction-free environments that're a short walk from our breakfast tables. I've been working from home for almost five years. It's made me happier and more productive, and that should be a norm.