Wrote a short thing on my frustration at the labelling of any arbitrary product or service as an “Operating System for X” https://nickarner.com/notes/not-everything-is-an-os-june-6-2022/

How do you feel about "law is the operating system of society"? It irritates me significantly less.

Most people use Windows as their Operating System, so they're likely to think of Windows first when they hear "OS." I'm not sure I want people thinking my product is like Windows.

I thought

emotions

were the operating system of society, but that might be giving too much credit to society and far too much credit to operating systems...