The Enshittification of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

Optimize Yourself by Zack Arnold

Feb 23, 202611:08Health

In this mini episode, I vent about the moment I realized everything feels harder than it should, from parking apps to paywalls to bots talking to bots, and I dig into the enshittification of everything, everywhere, all a...

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