Automate Your Decisions (Or Silicon Valley Will For You)
The Instagram algorithm serves you an endless stream of content. It doesn’t ask you if you want to see another post. It just shows you one. All you have to do is scroll.
Netflix plays episode after episode after episode. It doesn’t ask if you want to watch another one. It just starts playing the another one. “All you have to do is keep your eyes open” says James Clear, writing about automated habits.
It’s no wonder binging has become a cultural phenomenon. It’s automated for us.
We must automate our own decisions to counter these corporate giants’ automations. Not many people had a social media addiction when the feed was chronological. But when more content became automatic, the problem began. And it hasn’t stopped.
James Clear writes how we can automate our own good decisions. Onetime choices like turning off notifications, getting blackout curtains, or enrolling in an automatic savings plan can have profound long term effects.
Start outsmarting the tech companies. Automate your own good decisions.
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