stephanie

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

thinking everything from dopamine fasting to evopsych to even the popularity of workout classes — for which the argument i hear most isn’t “i do group workouts bc they’re fun”, it’s “i need someone yelling at me to work out and if i pay a membership that’ll force me to go more”

incentives are useful for systems i think but individuals are supposed to have coherency? slippery slope from using incentives as support tools to letting them take over whatever agency was there before

if you really cared about something wouldn’t you trust yourself to do what needs to be done

I get that’s not your intent, but just FYI, this is a line used to shame people with ADHD and it sucks to hear it. There are a lot of things I really care about that are hard to do because my brain has issues

yeah i thought about this and idk if this is selfish or insensitive of me but tbh it also feels shitty to have ppl coming in and decontextualizing 1 tweet out of 4 where i’m clearly trying to talk about a different generalized pattern