Every now and then I have this āseeing the matrixā moment with software, especially software for tracking things like food or water intake or whatever.
Like, my base, natural reaction to assume thereās all this complexity behind it and to assume Iām being judged for what I put in.
Like if I track coffee later in the day, someone (the system? employees?) is judging me, like ātsk tsk, you slept inā but also like thereās some complex tracking going on where now itās going to make certain assumptions based on me being up late.
But then this clarity will hit me, like, āThese are just entries in a database with binary data representing the values I input. Nobody is looking at this but me. After today, even I wonāt look back at this beyond maybe the total final numbers at the end of the day.ā
I think it started when I started making my own apps of this sort, because when Iād use mine, Iād have that feeling like I donāt want the complex behavior to misread something from my data and then Iām like, āWhat complex behavior? These are just numbers I store in a database and display back on this exact screen.ā
So then when using other apps it started to dawn on me that theyāre not doing anything fancy either, and even if they are, it doesnāt matter, because the app isnāt going to be that complex, and even if they can access the data, theyāre not judging me, and even if they were, who cares? They donāt know me and I donāt know them.
But I always start from that irrational stance and then like suddenly as Iām thinking about it, I just, like, see the matrix, and then I realize it doesnāt matter.
