{"id":29880,"date":"2024-03-31T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=29880"},"modified":"2024-03-31T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T17:41:06","slug":"%e2%87%97-the-rise-of-dopamine-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2024\/03\/%e2%87%97-the-rise-of-dopamine-culture","title":{"rendered":"\u21d7 The Rise of Dopamine Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.honest-broker.com\/p\/the-state-of-the-culture-2024\">The Rise of Dopamine Culture<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Here\u2019s where the science gets really ugly. The more addicts rely on these stimuli, the less pleasure they receive. At a certain point, this cycle creates anhedonia \u2014 the complete absence of enjoyment in an experience supposedly pursued for pleasure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A spot-on analysis of where we are as a society with our addiction to short-form entertainment and distractions. I really only see one way out of this (for me, at least) that is simple and resolute: ditching the smartphone. I have tried this for periods of time and it&#8217;s been perfectly fine in my personal life, but once you need to carry a smartphone for work, complete elimination becomes tricky. I&#8217;ve moved back to my iPhone Mini, which helps a bit, but the thing that would really do the trick would be a phone that only did messaging, phone calls, calendar, Teams\/Slack, and maybe Maps. I honestly don&#8217;t even need a camera, though I&#8217;d understand that addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rise of Dopamine Culture &#8220;Here\u2019s where the science gets really ugly. The more addicts rely on these stimuli, the less pleasure they receive. At a certain point, this cycle creates anhedonia \u2014 the complete absence of enjoyment in an experience supposedly pursued for pleasure.&#8221; A spot-on analysis of where we are as a society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[495,39],"tags":[494],"class_list":["post-29880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-technology","tag-instapaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29880"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29885,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29880\/revisions\/29885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}