I flipped my desk last week. Literally. Sent the monitor flying, stomped on my laptop in a blind rage.

Or at least, I did in my head. And then I heard my name through the haze and realised I was still on the daily call, knee-deep in fixing a broken build, updating secrets, and untangling merge conflicts I didn’t cause, just to reach the work that actually mattered.

And that’s the point: everything is too hard. Not meaningful-hard. Not worth-it-hard. Just absurdly, unnecessarily, needlessly hard.

We’ve normalised friction. We’ve glamorised struggle. We celebrate Git mastery as a badge of honour, when in truth it’s a symptom of dysfunction. We twist our models to fit relational schemas and write SQL incantations that make us feel superior, even though other languages and models show us it could be simpler. We tell ourselves this is maturity, when really it’s resignation.

This talk doesn’t offer a framework, or a fix, or five steps to simplification. It offers recognition. It’s a rallying cry for everyone who’s ever stared at some pointless obstacle and thought: Why am I even doing this?

Because you’re not the problem.
Everything is too hard.
And maybe the first step to fixing that is finally talking about it.