About this site

I’m Dipro.

I was born in the early 90s and grew up in a time when internet technology was the big thing.

I had big hopes.

And now, the internet is……….kind of shit.

Actually, a lot of things are shit. Some thanks to the internet, other things because of corporate greed that’s grown alongside the internet.

Don’t get me wrong, we have a lot of really interesting, useful, beautiful things that run on the internet.

But for the average person, life is progressively getting worse.

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This blog is my way of coming to terms with our current economic and cultural moment.

Has tech has been shit from the beginning, or has become shit thanks to shareholder-value-maximisation?

What else is getting worse, thanks to this peak-capitalism/neoliberalism/growth-at-all-costs moment?

Perhaps the tech thing is baked into the architecture of the internet. Or perhaps tech is an unremarkable symptom of larger economic issues we’re living with.

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Contacting me

I don’t have an email I can put online. If you’re interested in contacting me, ping me on LinkedIn.

Updated April 2024.

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I’m hosted on Ghost!

Ghost is a publication platform that lets me publish and share my content.

It’s a nonprofit, which means no investors (VC or otherwise) asking for money and growth.

It costs a small amount of money per month. But I’m happy paying a small fee to use a service that prioritizes users, not the bottom line.