Thought provoking

“Our society’s brightest minds, my fellow engineers and product managers, are being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars not to solve the existential problems of climate change, space travel, cancer, and aging but to instead find new ways to keep an already mentally ill society consuming endless content, always fighting for more of their attention

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Actually, fuck answers, the more I think about it. The best questions don’t have answers. The point of the question isn’t to find an answer. The best questions are organizing principles, magnets, ways of seeing.

Taking the default path is not safe. It’s more like opting into a game of Russian roulette, where the cost of losing is wasting your one chance to enjoy your life.

Practically the entire economy has reoriented itself to allow Americans to stay within their four walls. This phenomenon cannot be reduced to remote work. It is something far more totalizing—something more like “remote life.”

This is a shift in how we understand problems and solutions. As Alex highlighted, research shows we're developing what economists call zero-sum thinking , or the belief that my success requires your failure, that wealth and opportunity are fixed pies to be divided rather than expanded. As Alex explains, zero-sum thinkers “see society as unjust, dis... See more

Public spaces shouldn’t require paying for goods and services.