Alex Dobrenko

2. No problem should ever have to be solved twice.

Creative brains are a valuable, limited resource. They shouldn't be wasted on re-inventing the wheel when there are so many fascinating new problems waiting out there.

You don’t need to be famous to have a Weird Internet Career, though it often involves building a certain amount of reputation for you or your thing in some corner of the internet, but most of that reputation is built by doing the thing, not by starting off as notable from something else.

The internet’s hot-start problem has already been called by other names — Total Noise, Present Shock, The Shallows, the Digital Maginot Line, the Age of Acceleration. Framing the internet’s problem as a hot-start problem isn’t to appropriate someone else’s analysis but to take a contrarian approach to a popular Silicon Valley framing — the... See more

“The problem with things that release a lot of dopamine all at once is that our brains have to compensate. But this is really the key point — our brains don’t just then bring our dopamine firing back to baseline level,” she said. “It actually pushes dopamine levels below baseline. We go into a dopamine deficit state. That’s the way the brain... See more