Choose your own battle

I don't have much time to spend. I'm not powerful enough to fix all of current world problems. I'm just a young, disillusioned person navigating life.

Hence, I must choose my own battle, since I cannot win all of them at once.

What does this mean in practice?

I can prefer to use free, open source software while still using proprietary Operating System such as Windows or MacOS. I can refrain from using AI in my code while still using AI-affected technologies such as rsync or Linux. I can be easy-going on the outside while still following my compass.

This is not compromising my values. This is prioritising how I value my time.

I don't have much time to deal with computer problems. I don't want to stop using a piece of technology just because it goes against of what I think it should be. I don't want to appear ideological while producing no value.

All in all, it's about being adaptive.

It's sad that I cannot achieve purity and perfection. But what I receive instead will be sanity and time.

And in this burning world, this seems to be the path forward.

Being ideological does have its own benefits, but rejecting reality won't help.

See you.