Much of the article is rehashing common takes on social media and the attention economy, but this is the money quote imo: “Eventually, the addiction to useless

Much of the article is rehashing common takes on social media and the attention economy, but this is the money quote imo: “Eventually, the addiction to useless info leads to what I call “intellectual obesity.” Just as gorging on junk food bloats your body, so gorging on junk info bloats your mind, filling it with a cacophony of half-remembered gibberish that sidetracks your attention and confuses your senses. Unable to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant, you become concerned by trivialities and outraged by falsehoods. These concerns and outrages push you to consume even more, and all the time that you're consuming, you're prevented from doing anything else: learning, focusing, even thinking” I think a lot of people (myself included) have fallen for this pernicious trap at some point.