Reality

We often compare social media to Orwell’s surveillance state of 1984 , but here’s what’s different about our telescreens: our screens do not exist to monitor us, but for us to monitor others.

Dreams are an essential part of a vital life, but they cannot become more real than reality. The trap I fall into is letting my fondness for an ideal future become a fixation on fantasy. Dazed by the divine image of how things could look, instead of working with the raw and gritty reality of my real life.

Kylie Jenner’s second pregnancy, a secret she had kept from the public, was uncovered by TikTokers who noticed the inconsistency in her manicures across various platforms, leading them to deduce that she was posting with old photos. That’s how closely we watch one another.

Lifestyle influencers who speak to their millions of followers as if they were close friends demonstrate this point exactly. Voyeurism is ingrained in our culture, in genres like “Day In The Life”, “Get Ready With Me (GRWM)”, or “Outfit Of The Day (OOTD)”. You get to gossip with her as she puts on her makeup, see her family in their unposed moments... See more

f the history was search, the future is find – because finding what you want is increasingly hard. The needle in the haystack problem. Those who can help us find the best stuff, and connect us to the people we’ll most like (intellectually, romantically, artistically, demographically, and on and on), and steer us to the things we didn’t know we’d... See more

If you aren’t getting people’s attention, you disappear and don’t matter anymore, so you feed the abundance with your own posts, keeping the cycle going (unless you’re smart enough not to care anymore, but who are those people?). Most of us just keep adding to the abundance, while trying to get attention – the most valuable commodity today.

You don’t have to make money back where you lost it . If something in your business or life is losing money, you don’t have to plug the hole right there. Often it’s easier to make the money back elsewhere.

Getting really great is a waste of time.