Our silly obsession with performance

Every day a new thing gets released, a new AI model, new car, new service, new phone, new laptop, new headphones, new power bank, new, new, new… and our compulsion is to ask: how does it perform vs what came before? Completely natural way of seeing thing, completely pointless way to measure that, because that question is a proxy for: Does this make my life better? And that is a complicated…