A reminder that The Metaverse failed because nobody wants to strap a toaster to their face to attend a virtual meeting that could have been a Slack message that could have been an email that should have been a 60 second phone call.
Modernity is a conspiracy to replace 'thick' desires (community, craft, transcendence) with 'thin' desires (likes, sugar, dopamine). Revolt by doing something slow. Bake bread. Write a letter. Code a tool for just one person.
Your 'network' is a list of people who want something from you. Your 'community' is a list of people who will help you move a couch. Optimize for couch-movers.
The βMarketplace of Ideas' really turned out to be a 'Spirit Halloween of Grievancesβ hey
People think they want 'unbiased news.' What they actually want is a news source that shares their exact priors but has a slightly more neutral vibe so they feel intellectual while reading it
Outside of memoirs // academic works, most non-fiction books could be 25,000 words.
I am once again asking for a separate internet for people who understand what 'median' means
Free will is an illusion, which is very convenient because it means this bag of Doritos was inevitable
Stoicism is great until you realize that 'accepting what you cannot control' applies when someone on the internet is wrong
guy who's really into stoicism but only the "control your emotions" part and not the "also you should probably accept death calmly and live virtuously" part and also sucks at controlling his emotions
