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I read this as an indictment of tech firm culture, not of the actual merits of saving lives vs saving bookmarks.

The #1 all time human tool has got to be a piece of software called "Microsoft Excel".

Not to far down that list is probably Lotus Notes

VisiCalc should get the credit: Lotus 123 and Excel are both derivatives that would not exist without VisiCalc (though it’s a given that someone else would have come up with a similar concept ex nihilo around the same time, imo).

Lotus Notes is awful. It’s Exchange, but worse. They wanted it to be an “open” platform for applications to be built on top of but failed to win over hearts and minds (and especially not hearts...).

I mean, that's fair. He's not even wrong. I just found it funny that I have literally done both of the things he was trying to draw a contrast between. I mean, not precisely slapping note-taking onto a browser shell, but close enough.

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