TJ writes about startups, health information, and data projects, such as tracking New York Times headline tests.
Commenters link his posts on a failed $40k startup idea, bad Google health information, and Consume Less, Create More, which one found personally inspiring.
https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more
This article inspired me on two things :
1) Lots of the things I do in everyday life is just to consume: buying, watching, following, etc. These things either consume my money, or my time. These things make me feel good, but it does not generate real value. In order to get rich, I need to create things. I also start to realize that great people are great because they started to create things at a very early stage of their life (but not consuming things as they advocate, think about celebrities, entrepreneurs etc), so they are able to practice and perfect the value creating skills to the extreme.
2) I start to realize that the world is binary in nature : I create to sell, I buy to consume. I either at the buyer side, or at the seller side. And in this current society, there is a huge buyer side trap, the whole idea of consumerism and social media is to trap you inside the buyer side, so you keep buying, you keep consuming. I really need to break free from this trap.
This blog post was written before COVID-19, but the idea feels even fresher during this pandemic era
The above commenter mentioned censorship. Regardless, the usage of algorithms doesn't mean there's a different set of rules the government can use to regulate it. The incentives you mentioned aren't limited to social media. Traditional media also has these same incentives, and tunes their headlines to be more sensational and attention grabbing. For example: https://blog.tjcx.me/p/new-york-times-ab-testing HN discussion at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26419070
Well, the link is broken but I assume OP meant to link to:
https://blog.tjcx.me/p/google-terrible-health-information
Funny how there can be a discussion about the content when the link is invalid. That together with the "SEO is destroying the internet" article lets me think of karma whoring...
You mean like this https://blog.tjcx.me/p/40k-fantastic-startup-idea ?