jtgi

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.

Warpcast

Been using the following feed heavily on X these last few days. Its good. Makes me feel grounded, gives a sense of satisfaction to see what people I follow are up to.

But I crave the For You feed. It is like a drug. It is entertaining. Its brainless. Its numb. Its new. But it drains you after some time.

I think about this in terms of intentionality. 

If you do something with intention, you do not regret it. 

Whether it is a book or social media scrolling. 

The reason time spent on social media is less intentional is because of two things 

(1) notifications 
(2) algo feed 

the algo feed is a drug.

memebuilding • prev manifold.xyz, twilio.com

I think about this in terms of intentionality. 

If you do something with intention, you do not regret it. 

Whether it is a book or social media scrolling. 

The reason time spent on social media is less intentional is because of two things 

(1) notifications 
(2) algo feed 

the algo feed is a drug.

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Unlearning. Full time product manager. Part time builder/tinkerer on farcaster. Bots: @nftsoffc.

I like this framing a lot and it rings true, thanks.