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.

weird internet kid. word rotator. building /seemore. yapping on /okbanger. curating in /cameron + pdfproject.org | dev + vet + HBS. 
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[btw this is lowercase jtgi because––in the words of @cameron––its an alter ego that mostly represents stream of consciousness unfiltered raw ideas. hopefully later they grow into punctuated title case words]

a lot of this is downstream of advertising business models, which makes me wonder: is there space for a client that doesn't optimize for retained user growth and dau?

what would other metrics look like?
- relationships made
- knowledge acquired
- regretted user minutes

maybe if warpcast is successful enough at bootstrapping a network some of these experiments can play out.

now *this* would be playing a different game