A lifetime of content I'll never finish
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Take back control of your attention, stop being controlled by algorithms.
I just turned 35. If I’m lucky enough to live to 80, I have 45 years left.
One TV series per week, I can watch 2,000 more shows.
Two movies per month, I can watch 1,000 more films.
One book per month, I can read 500 more books.
Then there’s anime, manga, podcasts, articles, newsletters.
There are already nearly 1 million movies in existence.
The US alone releases 500 new TV series, over 1,000 new movies, and more than 3 million new books every year.
At this point, there’s already more content on the internet than I could ever consume in a lifetime. And more keeps coming.
This isn’t a problem that careful curation can solve.
The world’s content already exceeds what anyone can consume.
My time is finite. By definition, I will miss over 99.9% of everything out there.
So I should stop obsessing over watching everything that’s supposedly good.
If everyone says something is great and I still haven’t watched it, maybe I never really wanted to.
I don’t need to watch One Piece. I don’t need to watch Stranger Things. I don’t need to watch Game of Thrones.
If it’s meant to be, I’ll watch it.
Not finishing is normal.