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A dawning realisation derived from my obsessive bookmarking and note-taking: I don’t trust Google to consistently serve up content that’s thoughtful, nuanced, etc. It typically gives you something blandly palatable published on a major site. The good stuff is almost crowded out
Over time Google has taught itself to prioritise some things over other things - and what everyone (in aggregate) seems to want isn’t necessarily what some subset of us want https://t.co/4wImVSIVvs
the procrustean attitude towards "attention" optimizes for a very specific type of attention at the expense of all others https://t.co/d83eRL2eBM
(caveat: I'm atypical) my trust in all of these things (including, frustratingly, Google) has been *DECREASING*, and I'm always on the lookout for other people who are experiencing the same. If you want real quality you have to ask the real stans/otakus https://t.co/JrrekVPBnD
The only solution imo https://t.co/fDTxMq90S4
Searching for Steve Jobs quotes (or any other famous person quote really) is a great way to discover how Google currently optimises for the lowest common denominator - ie most people want junk so it serves all of us junk https://t.co/RF8PfWrvQK
steve jobs said a bunch of really insightful things over the years, but it can be surprisingly tedious to find them because there's so much noise from people over-quoting the inspirational babble. I find myself thinking this a few times a year; probably worth making my own set