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We are animals! Our minds and bodies are not yet evolved for the information age. Our fleshy prisons have not yet learned to ignore a dopamine signal if it comes from a scrollable page.

Yes, if you really love someone, you don't give them the dopamine fix their body wants / that suffocates. You give them something that makes a positive impact instead.
Yes, if you really love someone, you don't give them the dopamine fix their body wants but shouldn't. You give them something that makes a positive impact instead.

I think that should be obvious!

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Because of this, love puts you in a vulnerable position. Because... When you act out of love, there's a chance that you'll be ignored or rejected.

And for me, this is the big glaring issue with power in arroost, and it's something that it prominent within Melanie's course: Consent.
And for me, this is the big glaring issue with power in arroost, and it's something that is prominent within Melanie's course: Consent.

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Listen, I thought I was right: I thought it was a "helpful" thing to do! But I didn't ask people if they wanted me to make those decisions or changes: I just did them.

It would be so much more empowering if I let you choose: Choose which features you wanted and which ones you didn't. Because then... if you do decide to use arroost as I offer it, and it works out... Then it's even more clearly you who succeeded, instead of me stealing your credit.
It would be so much more empowering if I let you choose: Choose which features you wanted and which ones you didn't. Because then... if you do decide to use arroost as I offer it, and it works out... Then it's even more clearly your success, instead of mine— me stealing your credit.

I shouldn't get to claim victory when you benefit from using arroost. That belongs to you! Not to me or to arroost but to you.
I shouldn't get to claim victory when you do well with arroost. That belongs to you! Not to me or to arroost but to you.

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Too many of our tools (including mine) claim to empower people but instead impose their own constricted world view.

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A good tool should empower users. It should not come as a "prescription", but as an "offering".

I don't want to be yet-another-tech-bro. I'm not here to [tell you how to live your life](https://vimeo.com/906418692) but that is what I am doing more and more... It's bad.
I don't want to be yet-another-tech-bro. I'm not here to [tell you how to live your life](https://vimeo.com/906418692) but that is what I am doing more and more and more... and it's bad.

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After my [opening keynote](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJzV0CX0q8o) at Heart of Clojure, I experienced three days of people telling me, "I'm gonna do what you told me to do" and I was repeatedly like "No no no only if you want to! You don't have to do what I tell you" and for the first time in my life, I was a bit scared by people *obeying* me.
After my [opening keynote](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJzV0CX0q8o) at Heart of Clojure, I experienced three days of people telling me, "I'm gonna do what you said" and I was repeatedly like "No no no only if you want to! You don't have to do what I tell you" and for the first time in my life, I was a bit scared by people *obeying* me.

So when I sat down with people on the final day of the conference, they seemed slightly surprised by my frustration and/or disappointment with myself.

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I offer you this idea:

> When I say things to you, it's because I think it's the right thing to do at that moment in time. That doesn't mean you have to accept it, or follow it, or even listen. Please, I invite you to judge the [code](/code) I transmit! Do you [let it die](https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/let-code-die/)? or let it sit?
> When I say things to you, it's because I think it's the right thing to say at that moment in time. That doesn't mean you have to accept it, or follow it, or even listen. Please, I invite you to judge the [code](/code) I transmit! Do you [let it die](https://www.pastagang.cc/blog/let-code-die/)? or do you let it sit?
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> It's a two way street You're a player like me. What will YOU say?
> It's a two way street. You're a player like me. What will YOU say???!?!!??!!!?!
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