Thomas
@tomcat
Thomas
My house plants became healthier and died less often once I stopped tracking their watering, stopped trying to use moisture meters or other tools, and learned to pick up on their vibes instead.
Many such cases.
Nat Eliasonx.com
“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
L. M. Sacasas
Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet
The Convivial Society | L. M. Sacasas | Substack
“It is probably more important for survival that people have a stable internal model of the world than for that model to be strictly correct ,”
The Medium Newsletter • How being irrational helps us cooperate and survive
Narrative Change - Narrative Changing
narrativechanging.com
Social media’s combination of global reach,
performance metrics, platform design, content
format, and algorithmic interference have changed
how creators make for others, and how others
perceive and interact with creators' work.
The results are an eternal presence, persistent
feedback, an unrealistic expectation of virality,
harmful social comparison,
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