Notes from the observatory

The StarBlocker Blog

Notes on focus, intention, and staying on the work that matters.

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Mitch Meyer · August 15, 2026

You're the Product: How to stop big tech from controlling you

"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." Andrew Lewis commented in 2010 on the topic of the social news site Digg. He was piggybacking on a 1973 quote by Richard Serra: "Television delivers people to an…

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Mitch Meyer · August 12, 2026

Superstimulus: How Modern Technology Exploits Your Brain

Ever-present Temptation A supernormal stimulus or superstimulus is an exaggerated version of a stimulus to which there is an existing response tendency, or any stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the stimulus for which it evolved. A…