Ben Thompson: evaluation

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…Yeah. So when I wrote about it, that was my point. It was like, “I don't care about the data. The issue is the algorithm.” And unfortunately that did not care. Maybe I should have read about more, but anything like all the politics stuff, there was a period… I mean, thank God for AI. When I wrote Aggregation Theory a couple of weeks later, I wrote something about regulation. I'm like, "This is going to drive a bunch of regulatory issues and antitrust things and all these bits and pieces." When that actually happened at the late end of the last decade, of course I was writing about it, I was watching congressional hearings, all this sort of thing, and that is the closest I came to quitting and burning out. I think burnout's not a function of how much work you're doing, it's doing work you don't enjoy. And at one point I'm like, “Oh, either I quit or I stopped covering congressional hearings.” So I decided to stop covering congressional hearings. I only wrote about antitrust stuff that was super prominent and I've been much happier ever since. And maybe that's part of the price of just not writing about that is maybe I should have pushed on the TikTok thing more. That's interesting.…

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