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Here’s a surprising truth it took me ages to grasp: by far the best way to spend more of your life doing meaningful, rewarding and difference-making things is to really feel the deep sense in which **you** **don’t need to do any of that stuff at all.**
The Imperfectionist: Acting Because You Don't Have To
Oliver Burkeman
The things we built are in decline, and the jobs we created are being lost. The Good Internet is gone.
We subordinated our critical thinking to chase trends and feed content firehoses.
The Death of the Good Internet Was an Inside Job | the New Republic
newrepublic.com
For social media, the biggest switching cost isn’t learning the ins and outs of a new app or generating a new password: it’s the communities, family members, friends, and customers you lose when you switch away. Leaving aside the complexity of adding friends back in on a new service, there’s the even harder business of getting all those people to leave at the same time as you and go to the same place.
6 thoughts on “Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Social Quitting”
Locus Online
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