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why does reading / listening to a book almost never have regretted user minutes and social media does?

for me its because its easy to stop reading. if i can't pay attention or its boring its natural to stop. there's nothing pulling me or dragging me back, its an active process. with social its more passive: you have the world's most potent memetic content surfaced and even autoplayed to keep you going well past when you might have stopped.

the feeling of regretted life minutes is familiar to me, its the same feeling as losing more than you can afford gambling, having bad sex, or doing drugs.

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I think about this in terms of intentionality. nnIf you do something with intention, you do not regret it. nnWhether it is a book or social media scrolling. nnThe reason time spent on social media is less intentional is because of two things nn(1) notifications n(2) algo feed nnthe algo feed is a drug.nnhttps://warpcast.com/czar/0xc9337190