Been saying this for a bit now. OTP/magic links have some upsides but the second your SMS or email provider doesn't deliver said thing your users are in trouble.
Worked at DocuSign. Even with all the fancy software and tools we had the real world use cases for non-digital tasks was always at odds with it. We built around it but at some point it leaves the digital space with a real person with a real red marker. And maybe a fax machine.
Always nice to see content like this come up. It's a struggle to do self care. Wrote something about this last week because I've been struggling for awhile too.
And it leads directly into the US being richer than all but tiny petro-states and growing faster than all of its peers. Fair enough if that's not what you want but there are tradeoffs.
Lets see how much it remains left if US keeps offshoring all the stuff, followed by imposing import bans after those countries become good enough to start taking over economy sectors.
>There's also unemployment benefits for US workers.
if you consider a few hundred a week "benefits", sure.
> people still vie from all over to work at US companies and we still draw the best talent.
yes, because like companies, the USD is coasting off of successes from long ago. We corrupted the tech boom, but fell behind on the FEV boom and manufaacturing in general.
USD is great to earn. It's horrible to live in the USD to utilzie it though. That's why companies are trying yet again to outsource.
