I'd like to recommend Johann Hari's "Stolen "Focus" to you.
You'll probably recognize several patterns, personal and systemic, that are fighting against (y)our ability to maintain the focus needed for many worthwhile tasks. Knowing is half the battle :)
I'm not an IG "user" (I'm writing that word in the "addict" sense), but I believe you're right about its harmfulness.
On the Elon front, you're not alone in thinking that he has essentially OD'ed on Twitter, which has scrambled his brain. Jaron Lanier called it "Twitter poisoning":
* Capture the market (like Uber), by doing whatever it takes to be successful (e.g. offer your services at 1/3rd of what it costs) -- flush the equivalent of several countries' GDP down the toilet, if necessary.
* Wait for everyone to use only your service (because it's like water??)
* Raise rates (hopefully, everyone is "locked-in" at this point)
Oh yeah, directly from the Softbank ventures playbook. Spoiler: it does not work as well as they hope.
Plus, we're talking about hyperscalers/big techs here, that would mean a commercial attrition war where OAI would be competing with actors such as Meta giving it for free from already existing platforms that have different main income sources (ig, fb, whatsapp). Good luck with that.
You'll probably recognize several patterns, personal and systemic, that are fighting against (y)our ability to maintain the focus needed for many worthwhile tasks. Knowing is half the battle :)
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