{"id":15868,"date":"2026-01-08T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15868"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:41:09","slug":"burning-tech-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15868","title":{"rendered":"Burning tech bros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@PBoyle\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@PBoyle\">Patrick Boyle<\/a> is a hedge fund manager, university professor, and former investment banker that continues his deadpan roasting of current business trends with this report on ridiculous actual tech inventions of things that already exist or are just beyond ridiculous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3jhTnk3TCtc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It reminds me of the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DJklHwoYgBQ?si=AMvlILh0102KaGbA\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DJklHwoYgBQ?si=AMvlILh0102KaGbA\">Smart Pipe<\/a> &#8211; a parody video that came out over a decade ago and proves we&#8217;ve learned nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Boyle is a hedge fund manager, university professor, and former investment banker that continues his deadpan roasting of current business trends with this report on ridiculous actual tech inventions of things that already exist or are just beyond ridiculous. It reminds me of the Smart Pipe &#8211; a parody video that came out over a decade ago and proves we&#8217;ve learned nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-47W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15869,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}