Lots of chatter about Hacker News lately. I'm with jwz when he says, "It is your go-to spot to simp for billionaires."

Because when I look around at our vaunted technological progress, I can't help but notice that we're drowning in slightly better stuff while the rudiments of human flourishing remain stagnant or deteriorate and decay.

Joan Westenberg, The Future is More Stuff

Emphasis, mine.

Emailing friends versus texting – Joshua Wold:

But far and away I appreciate text as a form of deeper more meaningful communication. 

Noooo! Please, can we go back to email for personal communication? The tools are better, the infrastructure is universal, and it encourages the use of complete sentences. I'm with Mitch on this.