I think this post is more of a collection of others comments and ideas than an actual understanding of the issues. I almost stopped reading when I came to this

I think this post is more of a collection of others comments and ideas than an actual understanding of the issues. I almost stopped reading when I came to this in a sentence: the word algorithm (or the phrase “Bid Data”). The author seems not to understand what they write, only what they have read other people say, about algorithms and how people respond to them. Although it's all very "meta" and some of his literary discussions on the agency of Marlow in Heart of Darkness are interesting... in the end it seems just as banal and oblivious to what is actually happening as those it describes. tldr- the concluding paragraph: "And how might we pursue the life of the mind? Perhaps the first, modest step in that direction is simply the cultivation of times and spaces for thinking, and perhaps also resisting the urge to check if there is an app for that."