(This post is a work-in-progress. Come back later.)

Nice things we can't have

• Uber apps without video ads
• Uber rides without tablets to blast you with ads
• Gas pumps without ads
• Durable and well-designed, practical products (Instant Pot company fails due to PE brand development strategy)
• Productive conversations on social media
• Going outside in an American city without encountering unwell people
• General-purpose social media with positive externalities
• Successful company exits that create conditions for enduring operation without going hostile against customers or benevolent actors
• Youthful people in political offices
• Young people who own their home
• Human-oriented cities
• Default-literate Americans
• Society even vaguely disabused of organized religion and other magical/deranged thinking
• Food that's actually food, and that's not priced obscenely
• Consensus that we ought not destroy our host planet
• Trust in institutions
• Enough of the “tipping” bullshit in America
• Any Google product enjoyed by its users for being convenient, easy to use, and win-win (RIP Google Domains)