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posted Dec 29 @ 11:21 AM by [31]Jason Kottke · gift link
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[32]Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life. “A thick desire is one that changes you
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in the process of pursuing it. A thin desire is one that doesn’t.”
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Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life · joanwestenberg.com
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The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger. We're hungry for more,
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but we have more than we need. We're hungry for less, while more accumulates
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and multiplies. We're hungry and we don't have words to articulate why. We're
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hungry, and we're lacking and we're wanting. We are
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Sort by: thread — [46]thread . [47]latest . [48]faves
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Jason Kottke reposted 2025-12-29T17:12:34Z
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[49]@adora.io[50]Bluesky
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"The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick
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desire, find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then
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deliver that reward without the rest of the package."
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Gonna be thinking about this one for a while.
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[51]https://bsky.app/profile/kottke.org/post/3mb5atkftcw2w
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"The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick
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desire, find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then
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deliver that reward without the rest of the package." Gonna be thinking about
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this one for a while. https://bsky.app/profile/kottke.org/post/3mb5atkftcw2w
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[52]Reply [53]Share
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Chris Bredesen 2025-12-29T20:31:22Z
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What a superb article. Thank you for sharing!
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What a superb article. Thank you for sharing!
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[54]Reply [55]Share
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Kelsey P. 2026-01-05T04:16:04Z
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I think I’ll be using this languaging for a while, thanks for pointing us to
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it! It brings to mind that we’re most fulfilled when our desires meet our own
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idiosyncrasies, not the fulfillment of others’ narratives or expectations. I
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was reminded of this the hard way a couple months ago when we pivoted from our
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usual family vacation style of low-dopamine, forest bathing/beach combing to
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the wildly expensive (for us), social currency of Legoland. I’d say it was a
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thin desire on my part to avoid depriving my kids of what culturally is
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relevant; it takes commitment and the courage to live your values with thick
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desires!
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I think I’ll be using this languaging for a while, thanks for pointing us to
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it! It brings to mind that we’re most fulfilled when our desires meet our own
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idiosyncrasies, not the fulfillment of others’ narratives or expectations. I
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was reminded of this the hard way a couple months ago when we pivoted from our
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usual family vacation style of low-dopamine, forest bathing/beach combing to
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the wildly expensive (for us), social currency of Legoland. I’d say it was a
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thin desire on my part to avoid depriving my kids of what culturally is
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relevant; it takes commitment and the courage to live your values with thick
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desires!
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