[dawatchusay]

I believe this is a personal problem of the author. I see a lack of self-control and self-determination where he is doing more of what his social group and technology want/enable rather than what works for him. For example the 77 tabs: how is that useful? The tech makes it possible but doesn’t endorse or require it and they don’t make money off of it. I find tabs become useless once there are more than eight or so in a window. I prefer to break out work streams into separate named Chrome windows that I can minimize and maximize when I need to. And also I still get into plenty of fights at bars but maybe that’s just me

[criddell]

I see the problem as us with our puny brains and relatively weak incentives against big companies with a small army of PhDs and huge incentives.

[pkasting]

I think it's more a case of Jevons Paradox. I work on Chrome, and many of the things we've introduced have been out of a genuine desire to make some task easier or solve some problem people had. But when you make it easier to do that (for whatever "that" you're speaking of), people do so much more of it that they wind up in a worse conundrum. I can cite half a dozen concrete examples of this that we have metrics for, from js speed to renderer memory use to tab count.

It's easy to point fingers -- dumb author, evil greedy company -- but the truth is generally more mundane and more perplexing: bad outcomes often arise from everyone involved trying to do reasonable things.

[yellow_postit]

blaming the author when systems are designed to hit every dopamine and weak spot is not a fair fight.

[saiya-jin]

Its not like it was a great mystery 20 or even 30 years ago that too much sitting on one's ass in front of computer or generally being physically very passive is a disaster for your health, whole routines were suggested not only to avoid carpal tunnel and in some nations whole offices did morning exercises.

Seriously, in 2024 there is no excuse... but folks without any discipline/resolve like to take weak shortcuts in their lives and then complain when unavoidable results eventually come in.