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hmm. you’re renting my brain. you also don’t get to control how i process the info and what i get to remember.


You also don’t get to control how you process the info and what you remember.

In fact, skilled advertisers and psychologists and the kind of people who develop dark patterns for social media companies[1] likely have more control over it than you have.

[1] and your company’s glorious loyalty oath parade, logos on mugs on your desk, anti-union propaganda posters, slogan you recite on the phone, etc. It is all changing you one way or another.




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