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I’m starting to feel like yeah, dopamine and information overload have their effects, but I also feel like there is a certain point in life where people age out
by tolerance 2y ago
I’m starting to feel like yeah, dopamine and information overload have their effects, but I also feel like there is a certain point in life where people age out of “the extrinsic motivation force field” that insulates and propels young people toward adulthood and then leaves them once resources are reallocated to the next crop of kids who are primed to enter the labor market.
- dboreham 2y agoFortunately software people will constantly keep inventing new things, new names for old things, things that don't do anything useful but nobody realizes, and on and on. It's hard to get to the end of the knowledge curve because it's not a bounded space.