Anna Gotlib on why romanticising your own life is philosophically dubious, setting up toxic narratives, and an inability to truly love — the cost of living inside your own story.
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Cal NewportBefore smartphones, there was another attention crisis: Newport reads the 19th-century fear of cheap novels and the modern fear of feeds as the same underlying pattern.
The EA mindset is often technocratic. The progress community tends to be much more Hayekian: let lots of people try things and see what works.
Two tribes that both worship technology can't agree on whether it's steered by experts or by markets. That tension is more useful than the consensus it blocks.
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