{"id":30155,"date":"2025-12-29T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=30155"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:27:07","slug":"%e2%87%97-thin-desires-are-eating-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2025\/12\/%e2%87%97-thin-desires-are-eating-your-life","title":{"rendered":"\u21d7 Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joanwestenberg.com\/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life\/\">Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. A thin desire is one that doesn&#8217;t&#8230; The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick desire, find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then deliver that reward without the rest of the package.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a great way to delineate the two core types of activity we tend to pursue in life. Very similar to what Craig Mod calls <a href=\"https:\/\/craigmod.com\/roden\/027\/\">&#8220;Tiny Loops&#8221;<\/a>. Is there any doubt that the graph of these two types of activities have dramatically reversed over the last few decades? This is a great wake-up call to re-calibrate ourselves. No time like the start of a new year to begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. A thin desire is one that doesn&#8217;t&#8230; The business model of most consumer technology is to identify some thick desire, find the part of it that produces a neurological reward, and then deliver that reward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[497,495],"tags":[494],"class_list":["post-30155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-links","tag-instapaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155","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=30155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30160,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30155\/revisions\/30160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}