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Struck by a market-making provocation from @tristanharris today: "Imagine a world where you love how you make choices and you love how you're directing your attention, because tech inventors are competing to figure out how best to help you live as you intend."
Is this a product people want? To what extent do people even endorse making choices they love vs. choices they "should" make such that they're sufficiently virtuous or self-sacrificial or discerning? I'm disheartened by how few people intend anything in particular for their lives
I'm often disheartened by the same, but I'll play the optimist here. There is some population—sure, not everyone—who feel an intermittent vague uneasiness about the way they seem to be passengers in their own lives. It is easy for me to imagine good things happening (cont):
1. Bob hears people talking about a new kind of super-diary, which people say helps them feel more intentional 2. After the 5th mention, the chatter connects with Bob's prior unease 3. Bob tries it, *does* become more intentional 4. Bob's genuinely grateful for this development
Depressing but plausible: one benefit of a web of distracting, non-reflective dopamine hits is that people are occasionally able to get caught up in something that *isn't* about conscious life choices, the majority of which they make for every sort of purpose except their own
I think people want a product like this, yet every force acts against them. Companies compete for your dollars, time, energy, and attention (granular) — and thankfully the games have been revealed. We’re more aware of our cognitive weaknesses, so exploitative companies must adapt
I think the gist of this is right, but I bet it doesn’t happen in the package they are thinking. Match competition for digital enabled attention with ability to actively participate in an activity, but do it more effectively than heretofore possible at scale. /1
Make more of X happen. Around broad subjects. Better eating. Learning. Dressing. Fitness. Attention worthy subjects. From not just attention but to participation that leads to beneficial outcomes on an individual basis.
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