Thomas

everywhere we look as creators today the gravity is just pushing us it's just pushing us toward making for other reasons than why we set out to make things in the first place it's so important to remember to make beautiful things to make things that light you up and to make things that you care about there's a wonderful metaphor that I love um it's

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“The problem with social media platforms is not just that they seek to hook us on their products, it’s also that they offer themselves as the answer to profound human desires, which they are ultimately unable to satisfy.”

L. M. Sacasas

Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet

In a speech delivered years ago, Ev Williams used agriculture as a metaphor to understand what’s possible on the Internet.

Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and industrialized farms with... See more