When writing software, the longer we spend our lvies doing it, the more we often encounter tradeoffs in information, like abstraction and locality of behavior (LoB).

We celebrate heroes, entrepreneurs, artists, and independent thinkers. These individuals are often showcased as beacons of innovation and progress.

Yet, despite this glorification, conformism remains is the norm, not exception through all observed history.

Today's generation is prosperous. But it's also plagued by problems similar to the past.

Increasing wealth gaps, squeezed middle class, low birth rates, public debts that are increasing unsustainable, difficult job market.

Taxes are dumb.

It's hard to be controversial to say so. Most people who worked and earned money for a living would be frustrated by the whole experience that is so embedded in modern society, to the point it becomes something we learned to be helpless about.

This post won't try to change the way taxes work. I'm too small of a player for the legal system to give a damn about. ¹

I am surrounded by independent thinkers. ¹

From this limited sampling, I learn that most of these independent thinkers had an episode of being misunderstood, disagreed, or ridiculed by the people around them.