The more tabs I have to open, to discuss/cite something, the more mental energy it takes… which means the less likely I am to do it. This is part of why I rarely write good posts, and why my shortforms often just say “see the place where this was written, probably” instead of an actual link.
This limitation doesn’t have as high an activation energy for memes. EXTREMELY RELATED AND RELEVANT AND EXPLANATORY: the concept of “dark flow”.
This is why anything remotely useful, or even seemingly useful, can feel too hard, while we sink thousands of hours into playing video games (poorly! see my “SBF x LoL” post)
If any productive dark-flow activity actually existed, it would cease to exist (either by getting anti-inductively harder with competition as more people learn about it, or by getting less rewarding than things that produce zero or negative results). Most markets aren’t that adequate, but this one in particular seems unusually tough to crack.
The more tabs I have to open, to discuss/cite something, the more mental energy it takes… which means the less likely I am to do it. This is part of why I rarely write good posts, and why my shortforms often just say “see the place where this was written, probably” instead of an actual link.
This limitation doesn’t have as high an activation energy for memes. EXTREMELY RELATED AND RELEVANT AND EXPLANATORY: the concept of “dark flow”.
This is why anything remotely useful, or even seemingly useful, can feel too hard, while we sink thousands of hours into playing video games (poorly! see my “SBF x LoL” post)
If any productive dark-flow activity actually existed, it would cease to exist (either by getting anti-inductively harder with competition as more people learn about it, or by getting less rewarding than things that produce zero or negative results). Most markets aren’t that adequate, but this one in particular seems unusually tough to crack.