You know that old saying about Archimedes and how if he had a place to stand and a lever, he could move the world? Perceptually speaking, it is possible, even easy to make literally anything the center of existence and conceptualize literally everything else as orbiting corollaries to that one central thing.

Having said that, it's a fun way of looking at the world and can produce genuine insights. We could say that all of human history is about money or stories or attention or information processing or sight or greed or-or-or-or. All those things are true, all of them are a place to stand. The lever is what you do with that information.

It is equally fascinating to consider how technology changes to serve our needs and how our behaviour changes to serve the technology. We invented chairs and so pelvic floor problems and chronic lower back pain became things. Also, chiropractors. We invented cars and so traffic jams and drive-thrus and teenagers having sex at "Makeout Point" became things. We change our speech pattern, enunciate our words, shrink our vocabulary when talking to Alexa or "OK Google" because it isn't yet 'smart' enough to catch our informal everyday modes of speech as human ears would. In effect, the algorithms make us more legible so that we fall within the limits of their sight. Their limits.

What does that have to do with the above post? Money is an algorithm too; it allocates attention and interest and action; few things shape our behaviour more profoundly even as we shape its behaviour in turn.

Very inspiring post; look at the ridiculous comment you have elicited from me :embarassed: