very refreshing to read. theres just so much complexity behind myriad of decisions just to build simple apps/websites and this is not a coincidence.

by draining cognitive resources you are able to manipulate people into making poor quality decisions. ex) mainstream news, aisle of grocery items, FANG-led development mythos and over-engineering

the last one is especially susceptible to manipulation.

"but we have to scale", "i read HN article from an ivy league founder", "someone with lot of followers on twitter said so"

and boom you are no longer in control of your mind or aware of losing control.

marketing is just like herding cattles, DDOS their cognitive resources so they can't think for themselves and gaslight each other, make them use your npm/pip package with a subscription/metering from day 1, get em while they are young.