Sparks 👁️

the Overlord Effect—a Godlike attitude emerging from a feeling that we have mastered the universe and colonized space.

That is, we’ve traded our craftsmenship for management. We now are less immersed in the exact pieces we’re putting together and more interested in the outcome of the work. To us, programming has now become a means to an end, instead of an end in itself.

To be platform-pilled means that one’s conception of truth is the version that best serves the platforms' goals.1 What we think of as popular, trustworthy, engaging, or even virtuous is filtered through the platforms' logic.

The easiest way to feel the absolute value of something is to imagine, as vividly as possible, its disappearance.

I’ve come to learn that I never want to sacrifice the aliveness of the present moment in service of a fantasy.