"Monopolies get lazy, they just rent seek and don't innovate"
I think part of what enables a monopoly is absence of meaningful competition, regardless of how that's achieved -- significant moat, by law or regulation, etc.
I don't know to what extent Google has been rent-seeking and not innovating, but Google doesn't have the luxury to rent-seek any longer.
I won't argue that I always use it in a stylistically appropriate fashion, but I may have to move away from it. I am NOT beating the actually-an-AI allegations.
The missing piece is that the body does not burn a constant amount of energy, and often the body's response to calorie restriction is to reduce the amount of energy used. [1]
Play the weight-loss game with your body, and you'll find the goalposts get moved.
> and often the body's response to calorie restriction is to reduce the amount of energy used.
Presumably the point at which it's VERY difficult to expend more calories than you're consuming is something of an equilibrium point, or healthy weight. I find it hard to believe that if you're still 100 pounds overweight after having lost say 20 pounds that it's nigh-impossible to find more "fat to trim" in the caloric intake, for example.
In line with the book "Intuitive Eating", I'm trying to make peace with both food and my weight lately for this reason.
Given what effects stress, depression, anxiety, guilt, shame, etc. have on the psyche and body, I'm running an experiment, and betting that making peace and taking care of my body as it is right now will benefit me in the long run.
Your idea smells of a dark pattern—in my eyes you're attempting to generate FOMO from the leaderboard by making players redo levels they've already completed.
Moreso, levels players they scored low at are likely the ones that frustrate them the most.
You're proposing to make them revisit those levels.
This is not a good idea unless your game is about Sisyphus
I wonder what drives companies to include so much fluff when explaining a re-brand -- any wording beyond "hey, we think our branding looks stale so we gave it a haircut and a shave" is ripe for mockery.
Is the size of the blog post in their mind better justifying the time and money spent doing the rebrand?
Reminds me of a similar problem where nonfiction books spend two-hundred pages "expanding" a concept that could've been a tight ten or twenty pages.
If you're willing to share, I'm curious on what issues you're having with Spotify. Do you feel you're filling the silence too much with it, or something else?
I'm tired of Spotify too, in part because I don't see an endgame where I shut the family plan off. My family uses it a lot.
First of all, Spotify recommends music way too related with what I already listen. I want to hear new songs, genres and want it to remind me old songs that I grew up with. But Spotify can't fulfill that. Also I think Spotify has a very good UX design so that it is very easy to access every time comfortably when I go silent as you say. Mainly for those reasons I switched Spotify with YouTube Music for now. And financially YouTube Premium is more advantaged, you can watch videos without ads and you can listen whatever you want even covers.
I think part of what enables a monopoly is absence of meaningful competition, regardless of how that's achieved -- significant moat, by law or regulation, etc.
I don't know to what extent Google has been rent-seeking and not innovating, but Google doesn't have the luxury to rent-seek any longer.