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Here’s the problem with online shopping. It is great if you know exactly what you want. Google, black Hermes Birkin bag and you’ll find numerous ways to purchase one. However, try Googling “luxury tote” and you’ll end up in a black hole of frustration.

There is immediate gratification in knowing you selected a creator before their exponential growth, akin to holding bitcoin when it sat at just $1000. It is a form of social currency for young people today, one that carries more weight than the extent of your fandom.

Most things are harder than they look and not as fun as they seem because the information we’re exposed to tends to be a highlight reel of what people want you to know about themselves to increase their own chances of success. It’s easiest to convince people that you’re special if they don’t know you well enough to see all the ways you’re not.

But what really blows my noodle is how rare AI skepticism still is in the media. One year ago, ChatGPT was opened to the public. The onslaught of overheated and careless rhetoric about our imminent ascent to a new plane of existence (or our imminent extermination) began then and has not slowed since. It’s inherent to the financial interests of jour... See more

Beyond a moderate level of material comfort, happiness consists of two things: feeling connected to others and engaging in meaningful work.

It’s ultimately a math question: are you more likely to find compelling content from the few hundred people in your social network, or from the millions of people posting on the service? The answer is obviously the latter, but that answer is only achievable if you have the means of discovering that compelling content, and, to be fair to both Facebo... See more