Enshittification

But before I let you go, I want to ask you one question that I always get to ask my guests.

And that is, what is a book that you recently read that you would recommend to our listeners and why?

Well, I hope I can share this, but I have been wrapped up in the book Enchidification.

Very good.

And really, you know, thinking about the world and kind of where we're at, what we've done with, you know, how does some of the pieces of higher education fit into, you know, I think of all the campuses, you know, when I started my career, rockwalls.

Why did Coke go from 20 ounces to 16 ounces? It also explains a lot and kind of validates what we all think we know, but Now it lays it out.

Yeah, it's a lot worse.

Now, who's the author of that book? Corey Doctorow.

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please i i need that money um i i will say we also got an email from do you remember the email we got from morgan and morgan yes that was like

It's got a bad word in the middle of it, but I'm just going to use it.

It's called Enshitification.

I know.

And this is a must read for everybody.

But anyway, topic digression.

Do we want to talk about more Enchitification real quick? Because there were two more things I saw that had people up in arms.

On

the list of Enchitification watch is Bitwarden, it would seem.

Yeah.

Yeah.

30 years later, you're just going, "This is junk.

Uh, it's just everything's cheap, chintzy junk." And that's sort of why today's title of the show was called Crazy Scammers, Traitors, Tragedies, and the Enshittification of Society in General.

We need to have higher standards and value things that are cool.

Uh, the fun fact I was getting ready to tell you a second ago, I used to bartend.

They have got worse and worse at giving you what you actually want because they want you on there for longer to serve you more ads.

We are definitely entering this enshitification era of AI, and that's borrowing Cory Doctorow's phrase.

Enshitification is a fantastic book.

I'm going to pop a link to it in the show notes.

Definitely read it because it's absolutely fascinating, and it's true for Most technologies, most things in the world, they start off being great and giving you what you want and getting you hooked.