When you’re addicted to easy winning in a game that’s getting steadily harder, at some point you’ll likely switch to an easier game that you’ll then try to reshape to deliver the same sort of dopamine hit.
Most adults > 25 have no surplus attention. In fact they’re usually overcommitted. Due to sunk costs, even big new opportunities/threats rarely shake people out of high-inertia overcommitment equilibria. So big attention redeployments usually signal commitment collapse elsewhere
oh my god. are all your abstract long threads covert subtweets of some particular person who annoys you?
i feel like i'm seeing the code of the Matrix now