Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life

we’ve gotten good at giving people what they want in a way that prevents them from wanting anything worth having.

I thought it was just me?

The entire economy of software assumes that code should serve millions to justify its existence.

Not only software. Scalability as virtue is baked into the fabric of cultures sacred and secular.

They’re remembering, one [inefficiency] at a time, what it feels like to want something that’s actually worth wanting.

The search for and creation of meaning is inefficient. A life is measured in opportunity costs.