2025, the year we took the red pill

Three things that shook me awake to the idea that the information barrage of the internet is a tranquilizer/red herring:

- Bad Mental Health: At the start of the war in Ukraine I read/listened to the news every day. I’d frequently cry, hearing an interview from someone who was trapped in a bombed out building etc. After a few weeks I realized I was being emotionally exhausted by something around the world about which I had no control.

- Enshitification: Working for a b2b “tech/coding education web app” company as a data scientist and realizing the perversity of incentives which were ruining the product.

- Increasing Opportunity Cost: Working on LLMs and realizing that the possibilities for what I could do were expanding because I would now have more answers and information at my fingertips than ever before.

Great post… it was useful to be able to reflect and understand my experiences with these abstractions.