The discourse is 90% people who read headlines arguing with people who read tweets about headlines. The 10% who read the actual thing gave up trying to correct anyone years ago. We are actively shopping for caves.
I swear, in all the years I've been working on my writing, the biggest drivers of me actually getting somewhere in the last year have been:
1. OmniFocus
2. Discourse (the forum platform)
OmniFocus because I finally feel like I've reached some kind of flow in my work.
Discourse because I finally have a home on the web for my writing.
'Be authentic' and 'curate your personal brand' are contradictory instructions we've somehow convinced an entire generation to follow simultaneously
'Follow your passion' is advice from people whose passions happened to be monetizable. Nobody tells the guy whose passion is Pokemon card collecting to quit his job, but that's statistically most passions
Book smart: reads constantly, knows history, understands theory
Street smart: actually understands how humans work
Online smart: can explain why everyone else is wrong
Wisdom: knowing which one you're not
We went from 'don't trust everything you read on the internet' to 'my entire worldview comes from screenshots of tweets' in one generation and I'm not sure we should be allowed to have technology anymore
The Internet: 'We need less performative activism'
someone does quiet, effective charity work
The Internet: 'Why isn't anyone talking about this issue?'
someone talks about the issue
The Internet: 'Ugh, performative'"
Between 1995-2015 we all agreed the internet would make everyone smarter. The internet's response to this prediction has been 'lmao'
Tech company lifecycle:
Year 1-3: Change the world
Year 4-7: Monetize the world
Year 8-10: Congressional hearing about what you did to the world
Reading a tech startup's "Our Story" page:
"We were frustrated with existing solutions" = We've never worked in this industry
"We asked ourselves: what if..." = We had a shower thought
"After months of research" = We Googled it
"We're disrupting" = We're copying but with React
