I sort of feel this. I’m not 100% sure on the analogy. Obesity is bad, of course because it makes your life more difficult, but also due to the negative feedback loop. It’s hard to start exercising if you are already in bad health.

I don’t see a similar feedback look with information. If anything it is like being an information gym fanatic that always skips leg day—my brain is strong I think (well, I hope at least), but no cardio.

I didn’t love his specific examples.

> A typical example on social media would be a photo of a freshly cooked burger, captioned with “Look what I just made!” but posted without a recipe so you can't even recreate it.

> e.g. “feeling tired, might go to sleep, lol”

These are sort of very obvious trivialities. I don’t think they scratch the itch for anybody. They aren’t dangerous, IMO.

Politics and tech stuff seem more dangerous to me. They are legitimately important and useful. But, for politics, you can only read so many stories before your mind is made up. There’s important stuff going on, but reading a dozen stories about one thing and then listening to the podcast just amps up the anxiety.

Tech stuff, I could waste ages reading about stacks and algorithms I’ll never use…