mulling in some half-baked & untested thoughts abt how the tech person’s trend of analyzing & structuring everything in their life in terms of incentives boils down to a rly depressing lack of trust in human self
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maybe, but I think allowances need to be made for the fact that people don’t actually understand their own feelings. A lot of it is post hoc rationalization or a jokey self-deprecating thing.
yeah i get the jokey self deprecating part re: “gotta forced myself to work out” but i feel like i see it enough in other things (obsessive calendaring, gamification trends, formalized goals for human relationships) that i think a good chunk of that sentiment is real
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oh yeah i guess I was poking at whether it actually works or not more than whether it’s actually believed
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wild guess says that it’s about agency / control / superiority to those who are not structuring their life in the same way, similar to how the idea of meritocracy in tech functions to justify its authority
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