Richard Smith

Did an experiment and blocked YouTube on my phone. It's honestly amazing how addictive the algorithm is as I already feel agitated due to its absence. It's like everything is slow now and it's making me angry. It will pass soon enough. I recommend never using YouTube on mobile regardless of it's in the app or browser based as it feels way more addictive on mobile than on desktop. I think the algorithm works way better on IOS as well, as I find it seems to be way more capable of serving endless content in the phone vs desktop were it oftentimes puts the same recommendations out over and over again.

Teaching myself computer literacy today. Got some projects I'm working on involving economic data. Actually pretty fun. I was kind of scared straight when I was speaking to some people in real life and found out that even my non programmer skill set was miles ahead of most people. Working with no code tools and python right now. I think this time I will not bounce off of programming because I have an actual reason to learn it besides "Get a job" or "Read book or take this class".

Who are you? Who sent you? What part of the internet did you come from?