@0vYbeb2xvwYhdYI that's 10,000% return in last 9 years which averages out to around 67% compounded return every year consistently without putting in a dime of extra investment. bs
@Entrepenulian It would be a cool idea to create a piece of AI hardware which attaches to your body and controls it. and the ai makes art using your hand.
A lot of people don’t need more motivation. They just need fewer options. You see this in product design too. Give people 5 different things they can do and they’ll probably overthink it. Give them one clear next step and they’re much more likely to actually do something. More choice sounds better, but sometimes it just creates more friction.
The internet made information abundant.
AI is making answers abundant.
The next scarce thing is probably attention, judgment, and knowing what’s actually worth learning.
Couple days ago Meta got hit with a $17 billion settlement for knowingly designing addictive products that harmed kids.
Their response was a public plea to TikTok and YouTube: "join us in capping teen usage at 2 hours a day, let's empower parents and teens together."
Let's be honest about what that actually is.
It's not concern for teens. It's a moat. If Facebook caps itself but TikTok doesn't, teens leave. So Meta needs everyone capped at the same time, or their user base and the data that comes with it walks out the door.
But here's the bigger issue nobody's talking about: this was never just a teen problem.
If you're a busy adult, you might feel like this doesn't touch you. It does. Millions of adults are living with the same consequences teens are, we've just normalized it because we're "too busy" to notice.
Social media has become a digital drug. Not because it's addictive, plenty of things are addictive. The real problem is it takes and gives nothing back. Like any drug, it consumes your time, your attention, your mental health, and hands you nothing in return. No skill gained. No knowledge kept. Just hours gone.
That's the part regulation won't fix. You can cap the hours. You can't cap the emptiness of how those hours are spent.
The fix isn't a usage limit. It's building products where the time people spend actually gives something back to them.
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@paulg Social medias like tiktok and instagram has shortened people's attention span without giving much in return and unfortunately as much has AI has simplified people's life, it has also made them lazier .
I have been thinking about this about human nature. People assume they'll rise to the occasion, get disciplined, get honest, when it actually matters. But character isn't situational. Pressure doesn't build character, it just exposes it.
Short-form content changed how people discover everything. News, Skills, Ideas, Stories, Careers, Culture
Now learning is starting to move the same way. Not because people stopped wanting depth. Because the first step into any topic is getting smaller, faster, and more accessible