I can't help but observe from a chat with a friend, that IT is in a bit of a crises, a "Trough of Disillusionment".

"It doesn't seem to me that there is huge progress on anything."

#cryptowinter - nevermind the toxic FUD in the (poisoned?) "community"

in the (poisoned?) "community" Virtual Reality Is STRUGGLING

AI & ML has certainly peaked expectations, see Naval break it down

& has certainly peaked expectations, see Naval break it down Intel seems to have stalled

lots of soul searching seems to be happening in Javascript (frontend) land, folks are getting burned out! #realtimeWeb

that Internet speeds never seem to get better faster or more reliable

still sad that Uber left Singapore. GoJek & Grab are duking it out, but it just feels like more of the same. Nevermind the sad state of bike sharing & electric stuff in Singapore

kubernetes's insane complexity proliferating #devops (i personally found DO supporting k8s shocking)

supporting k8s shocking) the never ending AWS new stuff and accompanying complexity ;)

the Web losing the 3rd browser engine, Edge, leaving us with Webkit (blink is pretty much the same guys) & Gecko effectively

the fact that only big corporates seem able to weather the storm whilst a lot of smaller ventures are in pain/poverty

It's too easy to get depressed in the information age we're in.

Beside being all doom and gloom, I am trying to seek out positives. The only thing I can think of is that all my laptops (thinkpads & Apple MBP) are now rocking USB-C PSU s. It's so nice not to worry about what charger is where now. One cable for Internet & power feels like great progress. Anything else anyone?

My tact to deal with this pain is to try as I usually do.. reduce and shun complexity. Try not to burn out.

UPDATE: Comments on HackerNews about 5 months later.