Sublime

At Google, he quickly learned, success was measured, in the main, by what was called “engagement”—which was defined as minutes and hours of eyeballs on the product.

they pace to appease the inner pain of being denied a real life….

“diminished memory effect.”

Each set of goggles you put on makes you see things differently.

The way our society works at the moment means they can’t do those things.

“We could just ban surveillance capitalism.”

We live in a gap between what we know we should do and what we feel we can do.

Political pessimism keeps people trapped in a search for purely personal and individual solutions.

there really are these invisible rules that govern what people do.