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Our phones, their glitziness, and the way they captivate definitely hijack the mind's operations when it's saturated by them. It's a rough solution but simply

Our phones, their glitziness, and the way they captivate definitely hijack the mind's operations when it's saturated by them. It's a rough solution but simply dampening the strength of the signal is one way to manage our minds. That's why I'm moving towards a smartwatch with cellular. I know I need to be connected, but to specific people, not to the information highway. (More information cul de sacs.) I'm excited about the kind of lifestyle patterns we can design that would be more kind to ourselves but not any less performant.

intended 9y ago
This is amused cynicism to your happy optimism. I look forward to making more addictive programs that make me and shareholders more money. I am eager to see the next evolution of UI/experience and code, where we manage to get ever stronger feedback loops in place. The end goal is to make money and have a good exit. To find a way to part people from their money, for the minimum effort on our our part and the best competitive release of value from our product for their time. There’s of course diminishing returns to product quality - I mean after all, who wants to be craigslist and just do the one job good enough? No no. We will buy out the competition or interesting startups and then expand our reach and label beyond the core product which must plateau out eventually. Then we leverage this cross platform ability to gain more market share and dominate multiple verticals which lets us disrupt other industries. Because if we don’t do it, someone else will. And this also has such amazing RoI! And look at the amazing value we unlock, surfacing relevant ads all over our network. But hey, you know not enough people are clicking on ads, so let’s push them Harder, we could model ourselves like those old companies we removed. Let’s hire some tv execs for their insight. As For the big picture - well I’m sure there’s someone else whose job it is to worry about that. If there is a problem we will solve it ourselves, us being the duty minded, un-incentivized corporations. Yup. The future is shiny and usefulness is incidental.

intended 9y ago

This is amused cynicism to your happy optimism. I look forward to making more addictive programs that make me and shareholders more money. I am eager to see the next evolution of UI/experience and code, where we manage to get ever stronger feedback loops in place. The end goal is to make money and have a good exit. To find a way to part people from their money, for the minimum effort on our our part and the best competitive release of value from our product for their time. There’s of course diminishing returns to product quality - I mean after all, who wants to be craigslist and just do the one job good enough? No no. We will buy out the competition or interesting startups and then expand our reach and label beyond the core product which must plateau out eventually. Then we leverage this cross platform ability to gain more market share and dominate multiple verticals which lets us disrupt other industries. Because if we don’t do it, someone else will. And this also has such amazing RoI! And look at the amazing value we unlock, surfacing relevant ads all over our network. But hey, you know not enough people are clicking on ads, so let’s push them Harder, we could model ourselves like those old companies we removed. Let’s hire some tv execs for their insight. As For the big picture - well I’m sure there’s someone else whose job it is to worry about that. If there is a problem we will solve it ourselves, us being the duty minded, un-incentivized corporations. Yup. The future is shiny and usefulness is incidental.