@swyx @arvidkahl @monicalent First you do X
Then you make content about doing X
Then you make content about that content
Then you make content about that content
(loop)
One day you realize you haven't done... See more
Philip Kielytwitter.com@swyx @arvidkahl @monicalent First you do X Then you make content about doing X Then you make content about that content Then you make content about that content (loop) One day you realize you haven't done X for six months And there is only so much room for content at the highest levels of abstraction
Everyone is way over-indexed on education and 'consuming content' of various forms. All you have to do is sign off and do things away from screens and lots of things click into place. No one comes up with anything good at their computer, they show up at the computer with intent
Adam Singerx.comThat weirdness we used to love? Gone. That feeling of “Wait, who wrote this?” Replaced by “Oh, right, AI.”
People started to notice. Not because of some big revelation. But because they felt bored. Uninspired. Numb.
The dopamine was still there but the meaning was gone. Like junk food for the mind.
Eventually, even the bots got bored of each other. Co... See more
People started to notice. Not because of some big revelation. But because they felt bored. Uninspired. Numb.
The dopamine was still there but the meaning was gone. Like junk food for the mind.
Eventually, even the bots got bored of each other. Co... See more
Hiten Shah • Tweet
In collecting all those articles and bookmarks, I’d been engaging in what the Substacker Harjas Sandhu, in an insightful post, calls “hoarding-type scrolling”. The hallmark of this behaviour, he writes, is “saving good posts for later instead of reading them now… I feel like a squirrel looking for fat nuts to stash in my little tree hole. The stran
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