How the tech gods turn you into a dancing puppet
Published: Wed, 08/04/21
Word around the campfire is, he has a rule on set I suspect makes perfect sense to anyone who achieves a lot, and probably rattles those who don’t — including people glued to social media all day dancing around like a puppet on strings reacting to everything, ravaging their hormones, and dampening their minds & thinking.
The rule?
I’ll let actress Anne Hathaway explain:
“Chris also doesn’t allow chairs. I worked with him twice. He doesn’t allow chairs, and his reasoning is, if you have chairs, people will sit, and if they’re sitting, they’re not working…I mean, he has these incredible movies in terms of scope and ambition and technical prowess and emotion. It always arrives at the end under schedule and under budget. I think he’s onto something with the chair thing.”
Mr. Nolan does not allow phones on set, either.
There is a lifetime of wisdom in Christopher’s rules.
And it brings me back to social media:
In my humble but accurate opinion… the fact so many of the social media sites are designed to turn you into a little dancing puppet for the tech gods by keeping you addicted, reacting, and constantly in “fight or flight” makes it even worse than actors and crew having chairs on set, keeping them distracted, and not as productive. Not to mention the rampant de-platforming, censoring content, and all the fun and delightful little clauses in their ever-changing terms of service nobody reads.
Yes, I know this falls mostly on deaf ears.
Nobody in business really wants to hear this.
But Yours Caveman has inspired a small handful of people to leave social media since 2018.
The free ones, at least.
But recently there was a plot twist:
Lately, I've been working on getting those same people back onto social media.
But this time in my own, private social media platform (that I own, and that has zero connection to anything big tech — not Amazon, not Google, not Apple, none of ‘em).
It’s free to join, and you can do so here:
https://www.EmailPlayers.com/bizhaunt
Ben Settle