Depends on how big of an addict. And also you could just disable the extension as well like you do for your failed site blocking extension of preference.
I am already old and wrinkled youngster. Most skills that are required these days are just the latest new fad and will be forgotten about in a couple of years anyway.
This is true. Everything new technology seems like an evolutionary improvement on one or a few aspects of programming, like separation of concerns, expressiveness, correctness, etc. None of these things should surprise anyone unless they've been stuck in one of the 1990s 3.5GLs and never learned anything else.
I like the idea. But if you have the knowledge that they are tracking you, why even participate in the app? I get it that all your friends do it, but that's terrible excuse. You don't become a social pariah.
Some people want to keep up-to-date or discuss a topic, and some content is exclusive to certain places. It’s an unfortunate side effect of the network effect, really
This reply somehow gets and misses what I was trying to get at.
No, of course I don't believe rationality is like that. The implicit point was that many people in tech do have an attitude like this. They overvalue their "objective" rational reasoning, ironically due to irrational needs.
I think people say that others dont act rationally, when really they just don't understand the other person's goals and how their behaviour contributes to their goals.
If i pass up $100 to get a burger, am i acting irrationally? It depends if i'm hungry. It depends how much $100 means to me (Am i bill gates?). Its impossible to say from the outside. I'm convinced much behaviour is basically the same except much more complex with multiple conflicting priorities.
-Job loss
-Romantic losses
-Self compassion
-Self care
Conceptually, think about how many times your friends have an issue that seems trivial for you (on the outside) to fix. Surely the same applies to you. Especially if you're high functioning, by definition anything left to work on is relatively outside your awareness and can't be solved from the "inside".
Some 80% or so of worlds’ problems are human interfacing problems than mathematical-engineering challenges, and its best to exploit native ability to handle it that we all received when born.
If you prefer video, watch the 1998 PBS piece Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet. I won't link to it because I'm not sure if the site is legit, but I just re-watched a few minutes of it and it's funny to look back at the hype in that era.
