Social Media, Success, and Me: Unfiltered Musings

Hi, I am HOTHEAD and this is my generation, Generation Z. Everyone here has the entirety of mankind's knowledge in their pockets. We could become famous with just one click Or change the world without leaving our bedrooms, limitless technological possibilities and what we do with it, face swap!

No one tries to be different anymore and why should they? Because online, we can pretend we have the most exciting life in the world but in reality, shit!, and because I don't get along with it, I'm an outsider. It's just fine by me. After all, everyone successful used to be a nerd with no friends.

Someone just said to me that I'm an asshole, But Steve Jobs didn't care that people thought he was an Asshole, either. Some of the greatest geniuses of all time were assholes. Thomas Edison for instance, in order to prove that altering current was deadlier than direct current which he discovered, he had an elephant publicly executed with alternating current. Carly Fiorina reinvented Hewlett Packard laying off thousands of employees while tripling her salary and buying herself a yacht and five private jets. Jeff Bezos from Amazon regularly sends employees e-mails containing only a question mark just to make them insecure, And Elon Musk, don't get me started with him.

Success isn't a popularity contest but if you want to be noticed by someone who isn't interested in you sometimes you have to do the exact opposite of what they're expecting. There are people out there who've made all their wealth from copying others. Samwar bros copied eBay in 1999, just to sell it 100 days later for 50 million to the highest bidder and the highest bidder was eBay. The trick worked so well, they did it again in 2010. This time with a Groupon clone called MyCityDeal. Groupon paid 170 million euros for it. From an economic perspective, a decidedly clever business model. And sometimes, the copycats are the most successful.

Trust doesn't depend on how many things people know about each other, but rather on what things they know. In the end, we all have secrets we keep from one another. Computers go about it differently, they collect everything about you. Your Google search history, who you follow on Instagram, and what you like on TikTok, They know exactly who you are. A study at Stanford has proven that an AI only needs five photos of you to determine your sexual orientation. Maybe we should be glad about every secret that still exists.

To give people what they need, you first have to know what it is that they really need. you might think you could simply ask a person what it is they need, but you'd be wrong. People typically articulate their desires rather than their actual needs. Henry Ford once said: If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said, "Fast horses." To find out what people really need, you have to collect large amounts of information about them. and observe their behavior closely over a long period of time. Do you think Netflix would have spent a ton of money on a third season of your weird show if they weren't 100% sure people would watch it?

Likes are like sugar. A short impulse straight to the brain to inject happiness hormones, you know it from biology, serotonin and shit. Why do you think Mark Zuckerberg is so rich? He sells absolutely tons of happy hormones to addicts, addicts like you! How many times have you already checked your Instagram before reading this blog and will definitely check after? See it's totally normal, I like receiving positive comments too it makes me happy but remember it's not real. Those people don't actually know you. It doesn't matter how much love you get, but rather from whom you get it.

"Don't be evil." That used to be Google's motto for a long time. It's simple really: Whatever you do, don't do anything evil. In 2018, however, Google changed its motto, to "Do the right thing." Sounds nice, right? Until you think about it for a few seconds. the right thing for whom? Google users? Advertisers? For people Who need artificial intelligence for drone warfare? In the end, what's "right" is in the eye of the beholder.

Every human is born a completely egotistical narcissist. Children hate sharing and have no concept of fairness. Only through education and culture, people are taught to suppress their innate selfishness in favor of social coexistence. But deep down, people of course only ever think about themselves and their own happiness. That's just science, Survival of the fittest. Everyone is closest to themselves. What I'm getting at is, if you want to achieve something, you have to ignore conventional wisdom and follow your own instincts instead And that means breaking rules. I mean, all of us have a dangerous side, right? Maybe I just need to find it..........................