Oh, I'm aware it's a high bar. Like most people here, I've worked my life in tech, and I'm in the deeper weeds of it.
But I don't see an alternative unless, as you note, one just gives into the "flow" of the AI, app based, "social" media, advertising and manipulation driven ecosystem that is now the default.
I'm aware I'm proposing resisting exactly that, and that it's an uphill battle, but the tradeoff is retaining your own mind, your own ability to think, and to not be "influenced" by a wide range of things chosen by other people to cross your attention in very effective ways.
And I'm willing to work out some of what works in that space, and to share it with others.
But I don't see an alternative unless, as you note, one just gives into the "flow" of the AI, app based, "social" media, advertising and manipulation driven ecosystem that is now the default.
I'm aware I'm proposing resisting exactly that, and that it's an uphill battle, but the tradeoff is retaining your own mind, your own ability to think, and to not be "influenced" by a wide range of things chosen by other people to cross your attention in very effective ways.
And I'm willing to work out some of what works in that space, and to share it with others.