Social media trends have turned the world’s most beautiful places into endless bathroom lines at a concert, where everyone waits for hours just to take the same photo to show to people who couldn’t care less 🌎📸
Nothing captures the shallow decay of our time better than this
Hear me out. A gym membership that gets cut to half price if you go 10 (eg) times a month. Easy to track (sign in/out system) and sells the outcome - a gym habit, not the activity.
The goal of a game is to win; the purpose of a game is to have fun. In toxic games, the goals overwhelm the purpose. You can win a game by mastering it, but also feel crap by failing to see that there is a larger game whose rules you have broken in order to feel like a winner.
AI tools have made me more productive, creative, and capable than I've ever been. They've also made me lazier in ways I didn't notice until recently.
The trick is using AI to amplify skills and judgment not replace them.
This is why most people consume instead of create. The artist, the writer, the creator within you died of suffocation long ago. Starved for the oxygen of empty space, silence, presence.
Every original thought, every authentic creation, every genuine expression requires space. But most people have no space. Our minds are a hard drive with zero free memory, completely full of installed software, running background processes constantly.