why i made this
Discussion
if someone came into your life and said:
i'll be your keyholder
i'll egg on your goon tune
you wont ever wanna leave this bed
do they love you?
transfixed, hypnotized, obsessed
willingly eagerly enslaved
addicted
permissionless
i trust you
i give myself over to you
do anything you want with me
im yours to do with as you will
In a 1996 Wired interview, Csikszentmihályi described the state like this: "Being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz."
to build these pathways, to turn them into highways, to make it the autobahn
easier than second nature, first nature, effortless
listen i just need some time to myself ok? on this couch alright? to slip away utterly. i can do that so fast these days that seven minutes on my phone are a lifesaver. i gotta just zone out ok? i'll be right back.
"As a thought experiment, imagine there were incontrovertible proof that certain web service designs caused people to enter the machine zone, quadrupling time on site for a subset of users. Would designers outlaw their use or would they all deploy the tricks for their startups?"
The Problem of "Giving People What They Want" also known as: The Perils of Being A Service Top™
"But I actually don't believe that. You can say many things about the entrepreneurs, designers, and coders who create social networking companies, but they believe in what they do. They're more likely to be ideologues than craven financial triangulators."
oh you sweet sweet summer child
someone out there protect Alexis C. Madrigal at all costs
im sure them not letting their own kids use this shit is mere coincidence, just a lapse cos ditzy and busy
"actually im making a fb account for my seven year old as we speak. finally arrived on this on the to-do list"
- mark zuckerberg