There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.
The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
Every complex system is one black swan away from revealing it was duct tape all along. Supply chains, financial systems, social trust. It works until suddenly it extremely very much doesn't.
The lag between inventing something and understanding its consequences is roughly 10 years. Social media (2010→2020), smartphones (2007→2017).
That lag is about to get shorter.
Today on The Internet is Stupid: people are convinced my screenshots are fake because the date says November 5 when it's November 4 in America.
Reader: it is November 5 in Australia.
May I introduce you to the concept of timezones
"I'm self-aware about my biases" is itself a bias. Thinking you're less biased than average means you're exactly average. Welcome to humanity, population: everyone.
