Adam Englebright
@engles
Adam Englebright
This is choice paralysis. Previous generations didn’t have many options so they stuck together through hard times and made it work. Now, abundance (or its illusion) has led people to feel less satisfied. People are now more anxious about making a choice and less certain that the one they made was correct.
It’s almost like boredom doesn’t exist, like difficulty doesn’t exist, scarcity doesn’t exist. And a feeling I’ve been having a lot lately is that scarcity is often what creates meaning. When you’re surrounded by infinite possibilities, when you know around the next corner is another video that might be funnier, you’re never going to sit with the t
... See moreOn my cycle home I mulled that 80%. Did it represent a good outcome? Or a bad outcome? What percentage match would be good enough? And if so, for whom?
And I suddenly remembered something I learned right at the start of my career, when putting Capital Radio Groups’ myriad radio stations on the internet in 1997. The woman who ran Capital’s contact ce... See more
And I suddenly remembered something I learned right at the start of my career, when putting Capital Radio Groups’ myriad radio stations on the internet in 1997. The woman who ran Capital’s contact ce... See more
Tom Loosemore • AI and the cost of failure
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
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