Garbage In, Garbage Out
Odd thought: There's never been less of a monoculture and yet everything feels far more homogenous
Current Thing Monoculture is where everybody you know seems to be talking about the same thing for 36 hours and then moves onCreates the impression that there's nothing big that sustains attention (which is what we used to call monoculture) but also there's surprising homogeneity in the discourse around us, which is both driven by and revealed by algorithmic sorting of posts
Marc Andreessen on the current thing:
Everybody has to have an opinion on the Current Thing. It's the most important thing in the world. And then 24 hours later it's like it never happened because something else has become the Current Thing.""As long as the internet is the medium of choice, we're going to live in a world in which this is the cycle now. It's like a 24, 36-hour news cycle."
"The role of mainstream media for the rest of our life is just going to be to follow the internet viral posts."
It feels pretty obvious at this point that someone's going to make billions building a social app that's just for friends, no AI slop, no brainrot, calm design, chronological feed and no concept of followers
In times like these I return to Michael Pollan's Food Rules: An Eater's Manual:
Today much of the challenge of eating well comes down to choosing real food and avoiding these industrial novelties.