# summary --- We tend to rage against the social media machine a little too zealously, blaming platforms for our own inability to manage our attention and imagining ourselves as too good for [[most of the internet is noise|stream of gossip and shitposts]]. In reality, being plugged in is beneficial; it gives you a job in the “social computer”; if you aren’t managing the information you consume, you’ll default to “processing low-latency information with small-minded cognition”. And the *way* to manage your consumption is to move fluidly between small / great mind mode. You cannot operate as a Great Mind all the time, you can’t become a Great Mind of low-latency information, and you can’t consume *allllllll* the things while trying to stay in the Small Mind zone. You have to stabilize your consumption and weight train against the firehose of information coming at you. # highlights --- >If you don't manage your information economy career, you will default to the lowest level job in the social computer: processing very low-latency information with small-minded cognition (bottom left) for small bets. It's the equivalent of low-level bug reporting/testing.