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I think what the article describes is true.

We are fed with ocean of information, the same bundle of information, with historical speed. If you are looking for e.g. interior design ideas, SEO, instagram, twitter, or whatever search channel du jour, including LLM, dictates what you are going to read.

We are also living in the most globalized era, having access to products unmatched in our history, the same bunch of products. Don't remember which book I read from, our supermarkets have more product, but all supermarkets are having the same kind of products.

Our working culture is also getting more homogenized. All companies are sharing the same kind of corporate talks. Everyone is taking the same style of profile picture, smiling, beaming with positive energy, with a uniform background colour. Think for example, your company tells you the company is cutting cost, what do you think the action will be? Why is that?

Software engineering is about using latest hot tech, not so much about understanding problems.

"We are all different", he said. [1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA



>having access to products unmatched in our history, the same bunch of products

Paradox of Choice.

Lets say you have access to 100 items, you'd probably want more in your life. Having 101 items would likely give a great improvement to your life.

Now image you have access to 1,000,000 items. Having access to 1,000,001 items isn't probable to change your life in any particular fashion. In fact each additional item you have to track is a mental burden. More work for you to figure out if its actually worse or better. Now bounce up this item to 10s of millions. Yea, life actually might get worse in this scenario.




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