If you disconnect yourself from people that you disagree with politically
You are fortifying your filter bubble
And your confirmation bias.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
#Idea – ‘Unfriending’ / 20.04.21
#Idea – Algorithms / 28.02.21
Making yourself unintelligible to algorithms is a skill,
And is increasingly valuable.
Image by Oliver Peters from Pixabay
#Idea – Prolefeed as a Technology Business Model / 09.01.21
We are led to think most
About the least important things.
Not because ‘they’ want to distract us from anything in particular, no.
But
Because this way makes the most advertising money.
Thus,
‘The Invisible Hand’
Ensures a certain level of obliviousness.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
#Idea – Selfies / 04.02.21
Years of psychological studies teach us that:
Generally speaking
The more selfies you take,
The worse of a person you are.
Image by Lars_Nissen from Pixabay
#Idea – The Clickfunnels Money Saving Algorithm / 24.10.21
The moment you realise that you’re on a Clickfunnels page
(…which should be easy, since these pages follow a template designed to make you scroll down and eventually click the ‘buy ‘button)
Stop.
Don’t think about it too much,
Just close the page.
You could also apply this approach to any squeeze page that you end up on.
Image by Mark Roentahlenberg from Pixabay
#Idea – Machine Learning Vs. Making Your Own Shitty Decisions / 17.01.21
Here’s a dilemma we already face
(…in opening stages, at least)
Making your own decisions independently
Vs.
Allowing your decisions to be guided by AI.
Many of us already depend on AI to make decisions
Arguably, lower stakes decisions
Product recommendations
Navigation decisions
What media to consume next*
Etc.
But,
As AI gets better at making suggestions
Where (…if at all)
Will you draw the line?
Will you let it guide you on the more important decisions?
What partner to choose?
What career to follow?
Who to vote for?
What to believe?**
Of course,
Such AI-guided decisions will be better decisions
Because AI will know you
Better than you know you.
Put another way
Would you rather make your own decisions?
Or
Would you rather make better decisions?
*Arguably a high stakes decision: – your values can be shaped by your media consumption. Consider the Youtube ‘rabbit hole’- which has a hole on the other side from which you emerge, fully radicalised.
**See asterisk one.
#Idea – Technology as Faustian Bargain / 15.01.21
The more capable the technology becomes
The less capable we become
Because
We depend on the technology,
And it can do what we used to do
Better than we used to do it.
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay
#Idea – Electronic Echo Chambers / 14.01.21
Everyone gets to hear
What they want to hear
And not
What they need to hear
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
#Idea – Humanity / 06.01.21
I live in hope
That today’s tribalism, unrest and conflict
Are simply the growing pains
Of a space-faring species.
Albeit, one that we may never see.
Image by Sharon Ang from Pixabay
#Idea – Social Media / 11.12.20
Social media companies build business models
That pray upon our attention-seeking tendencies.
No wonder they do so well.