Our digital lives are actively abusive and hostile, riddled with subtle and overt cons. Our apps are ever-changing, adapting not to our needs or conditions, but to the demands of investors and internal stakeholders that have reduced who we are and what we do to an ever-growing selection of manipulatable metrics…It isn’t that you don’t “get” tech, it’s that the tech you use every day is no longer built for you, and as a result feels a very specific kind of insane.
Fantastic essay that calls out what’s gone wrong in tech in the last ten years, as everyone from Facebook to Spotify pursued “growth” at the expense of actual users.
Our devices and software have gotten demonstrably worse, and not by accident. It’s the result of deliberate decisions, made by the people running the tech behemoths that dominate the modern internet.
