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A thin desire is one that doesn’t.” 49 50 [33] 51 [thumb-4807] 52 [34] 53 Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life · joanwestenberg.com 54 The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger. We're hungry for more, 55 but we have more than we need. We're hungry for less, while more accumulates 56 and multiplies. We're hungry and we don't have words to articulate why. We're 57 hungry, and we're lacking and we're wanting. We are 58 [35][ ] Share 59 [36]Open post [37]Copy link [38]Translate 60 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 61 [39]Bluesky [40]Mastodon [41]Reddit [42]Threads 62 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 63 [43]Email [44]Text/SMS [45]WhatsApp 64 65 Comments 3 66 67 Sort by: thread — [46]thread . [47]latest . [48]faves 68 69 Jason Kottke reposted 2025-12-29T17:12:34Z 70 [49]@adora.io[50]Bluesky 71 72 "The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick 73 desire, find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then 74 deliver that reward without the rest of the package." 75 76 Gonna be thinking about this one for a while. 77 78 [51]https://bsky.app/profile/kottke.org/post/3mb5atkftcw2w 79 80 "The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick 81 desire, find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then 82 deliver that reward without the rest of the package." Gonna be thinking about 83 this one for a while. https://bsky.app/profile/kottke.org/post/3mb5atkftcw2w 84 [52]Reply [53]Share 85 C 86 Chris Bredesen 2025-12-29T20:31:22Z 87 88 What a superb article. Thank you for sharing! 89 90 What a superb article. Thank you for sharing! 91 [54]Reply [55]Share 92 K 93 Kelsey P. 2026-01-05T04:16:04Z 94 95 I think I’ll be using this languaging for a while, thanks for pointing us to 96 it! It brings to mind that we’re most fulfilled when our desires meet our own 97 idiosyncrasies, not the fulfillment of others’ narratives or expectations. I 98 was reminded of this the hard way a couple months ago when we pivoted from our 99 usual family vacation style of low-dopamine, forest bathing/beach combing to 100 the wildly expensive (for us), social currency of Legoland. I’d say it was a 101 thin desire on my part to avoid depriving my kids of what culturally is 102 relevant; it takes commitment and the courage to live your values with thick 103 desires! 104 105 I think I’ll be using this languaging for a while, thanks for pointing us to 106 it! It brings to mind that we’re most fulfilled when our desires meet our own 107 idiosyncrasies, not the fulfillment of others’ narratives or expectations. I 108 was reminded of this the hard way a couple months ago when we pivoted from our 109 usual family vacation style of low-dopamine, forest bathing/beach combing to 110 the wildly expensive (for us), social currency of Legoland. I’d say it was a 111 thin desire on my part to avoid depriving my kids of what culturally is 112 relevant; it takes commitment and the courage to live your values with thick 113 desires! 114 [56]Reply [57]Share 115 × 116 117 Hello! In order to comment or fave, you need to be a current kottke.org member. 118 If you'd like to sign up for a membership to support the site and join the 119 conversation, [58]you can explore your options here. 120 121 Existing members can [59]sign in here. If you're a former member, you can [60] 122 renew your membership. 123 124 Note: If you are a member and tried to log in, it didn't work, and now you're 125 stuck in a neverending login loop of death, try disabling any ad blockers or 126 extensions. 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