Francesco
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Francesco
I write to validate that the things I do, my practice, my ideas, the lessons I’ve learned, and my writing have value. It’s a gratitude practice.
This is choice paralysis. Previous generations didn’t have many options so they stuck together through hard times and made it work. Now, abundance (or its illusion) has led people to feel less satisfied. People are now more anxious about making a choice and less certain that the one they made was correct.
Around 2014, a team of Stanford scientists hired by Google to research green energy technologies came to a startling conclusion. “Even if every renewable energy technology advanced as quickly as imagined and they were all applied globally,” they wrote, “atmospheric CO2 levels wouldn’t just remain above 350 ppm; they would continue to rise... See more
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer
Max Wilbert, How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer
Advertising and marketing have ruined *society*, the internet is just one of a l... | Hacker News
oliveshellnews.ycombinator.com
What looks like weakness is actually where your strength lies. And what looks like strength is often weakness, an attempt to cover up fear; this is an act or a facade, however convincing it might appear to others or even to yourself.
Jon Kabat-Zinn • Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Not sure if I agree, but interesting perspective
when every social media marketer is creating addiction and profiting from it, the cumulative effort is the root of the global problem
Mark Schaefer • Who's responsible for social media addiction? Me and you. - Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}
Cruel optimism, social media and big tech
one marketer alone can claim that their work, the content they put out won’t have any meaningful impact on social media addition and the fact that we’re all losing focus. But 100-10.000 marketers?
The Road to Digital Unfreedom: Three Painful Truths About Social Media | Journal of Democracy
Ronald J. Deibertjournalofdemocracy.org
The Flattening
open.substack.com
“We’ve been too busy reacting that whence forgotten how to respond”
People talk about consistency like it's the secret sauce to everything you've ever wanted in life.
You've all read the posts.
How you're supposed to show up every single day, publish your content at 8 a.m. sharp, and leave 50 comments. Not 49. 50!
You've all read the posts.
How you're supposed to show up every single day, publish your content at 8 a.m. sharp, and leave 50 comments. Not 49. 50!