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People with insecure attachments are walking around the world trying to keep the idea that they are bad or unworthy at their core—their shame—at bay. This requires them to engage in all sorts of ineffective communication patterns and behaviors to keep a lid on the shame they so fear being exposed.
Secure Love
Julie Menanno
The demise of Amazon Smile coincides with the increasing enshittification of Google Search, the only successful product the company managed to build in-house. All its other successes were bought from other companies: video, docs, cloud, ads, mobile, while its own products are either flops like Google Video, clones (Gmail is a Hotmail clone), or adapted from other companies' products, like Chrome.
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
wired.com
A study published in 2010 drives home this point. The scientists found that inner experiences consistently dwarf outer ones. What participants were thinking about turned out to be a better predictor of their happiness than what they were actually doing. This speaks to a sour experience many people have had: You’re in a situation in which you should be happy (spending time with friends, say, or celebrating an accomplishment), but a ruminative thought swallows your mind. Your mood is defined not by what you did but by what you thought about.
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