Daniel Santos

“I don’t want Big Tech to sell my data.” “I don’t want employers to stalk me.” Not wanting to be watched is a valid reason to be anti-social media.

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. There is... See more

Change, but start slowly, because direction is more important than speed. —Paulo Coelho

A 2019 study by researchers at Berkeley found that information acts on the brain’s dopamine-producing reward system in the same way as food. Put simply, the brain treats information as a reward in itself; it doesn't matter whether the info is accurate or useful, the brain will still crave it and feel satisfied after consuming it (at least until it... See more

The return-to-office (RTO) vs. work-from-home (WFH) debate has become one of the most polarizing workplace discussions in recent years. High-profile companies Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Tesla, and even Zoom are mandating multiple days of in-office work, while others, like Spotify, dismiss such mandates. In an interview in 2024, Spotify... See more

C.S. Lewis on the value of starting where you are:

“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

“Our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.”

— Petrarch