Tech veteran: outsiders don't grasp how fast tech moves, insiders don't grasp how slow the world is
arieljalali · x · 2026-10-18
Quoting puntium's observation: two opposite things can be true at once in tech — the rest of the world doesn't understand how quickly things are happening, while tech people don't understand how slowly change propagates everywhere else. A useful lens on the perception gap around AI adoption.
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