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Foundations compound. Shallow things stay shallow. Eventually, everything ties back to the layer below.
Worth admitting that in the last 2 months, we became obsessed with startup culture and AI hype. Our social media was filled with venture funds, founders, and startup stories. Meanwhile, we handed over the development cycle to AI almost entirely.
The point is, what did this give us? We abandoned an internally derived conviction under external social pressure and replaced it with someone else's narrative. We started to think that it was the only true way.
But it forced us to ignore our own internal reference point. We started scanning externally, which never terminates, as there is always more data: market trends, others' income, and social media benchmarks. So we stayed paralyzed, naming it "strategic evaluation", which almost caused an identity collapse.
Startup culture, specifically, had an enormous effect on this. The ecosystem produces a constant output of "this is the only real path" - marketing, not truth. We spent 2+ months inside of it and diagnosed incompatibility fast. Yet the time we spent is not a waste, but a genuine boundary.
The world is changing. AI has permanently displaced consumer electronics in the hardware allocation hierarchy. Look at the RAM & memory crisis. We are leaving the 1990-2020 period of the cheap, abundant, and globally distributed consumer electronics era - that was a 30-year anomaly produced by globalization, cheap energy, and relative stability. Now, all of those conditions are reversing simultaneously, returning to historically normal conditions.
What is expected to become scarce and valuable is understanding systems, below the abstraction layer. Resource-constrained design. The things that work even when supply chains thin out. In this context, letting hype pass and focusing on what matters, might be more vital than ever.
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