Yeah this is the exact journey of an addict. I’ve been there but with actual drugs. That’s why I think Jesse’s choice is right. The journey to quitting involves a bunch of relapses and some of those were when you were ready to quit for a little bit but you justified certain use cases because you didn’t have enough experience yet to reali…
Yeah this is the exact journey of an addict. I’ve been there but with actual drugs. That’s why I think Jesse’s choice is right. The journey to quitting involves a bunch of relapses and some of those were when you were ready to quit for a little bit but you justified certain use cases because you didn’t have enough experience yet to realize that you were giving yourself a path back. I’m honestly concerned that he’s still reading some Twitter. Twitter is not meth, but it is a dopamine effect, and meth is also an admittedly more intense dopamine effect. I hope that the outs he’s leaving himself (reading Twitter; the supposedly automated Twitter account for advertising his posts) don’t end with him back on Twitter, because I think Twitter is really bad for him. I am worried they’re going to end up with him back on Twitter, however.
Yeah, I know for my part it would end with me back on Twitter. One of the best Twitter features ever was the one that would lock you out of continuing to read if you weren't logged into an account after looking at a small number of tweets per day. I'm at the point where I look at people's feeds very rarely and have no temptation to make an account at all anymore, but that feature stopped me from going back constantly after my account was nuked "just to see what people are saying."
Eventually, if you do that, you will see something you HAVE to respond to, it's just too awful, it's too wrong, it's too funny, it's too important, and then it's like... well, I have to be back for the entirety of the aftermath, I have to see this through to its conclusion, I have to know how the argument ends. But the scroll is infinite, the argument never ends, and there will be something equally awful/wrong/funny/important every 48 hours or so thereafter for as long as you keep looking.
Yeah this is the exact journey of an addict. I’ve been there but with actual drugs. That’s why I think Jesse’s choice is right. The journey to quitting involves a bunch of relapses and some of those were when you were ready to quit for a little bit but you justified certain use cases because you didn’t have enough experience yet to realize that you were giving yourself a path back. I’m honestly concerned that he’s still reading some Twitter. Twitter is not meth, but it is a dopamine effect, and meth is also an admittedly more intense dopamine effect. I hope that the outs he’s leaving himself (reading Twitter; the supposedly automated Twitter account for advertising his posts) don’t end with him back on Twitter, because I think Twitter is really bad for him. I am worried they’re going to end up with him back on Twitter, however.
Yeah, I know for my part it would end with me back on Twitter. One of the best Twitter features ever was the one that would lock you out of continuing to read if you weren't logged into an account after looking at a small number of tweets per day. I'm at the point where I look at people's feeds very rarely and have no temptation to make an account at all anymore, but that feature stopped me from going back constantly after my account was nuked "just to see what people are saying."
Eventually, if you do that, you will see something you HAVE to respond to, it's just too awful, it's too wrong, it's too funny, it's too important, and then it's like... well, I have to be back for the entirety of the aftermath, I have to see this through to its conclusion, I have to know how the argument ends. But the scroll is infinite, the argument never ends, and there will be something equally awful/wrong/funny/important every 48 hours or so thereafter for as long as you keep looking.