Pavel Durov

Maybe there is some bounty next to you and you have to avoid it.

Or you take a hammer and smash the signal.

I think the answer is quite obvious.

So why are we constantly doing this regardless?

Oh, because everybody else is doing it.

Because there's a whole industry trying to persuade you that this is the right thing to do.

So it's incredibly important to analyze yourself and try to get to the bottom of things.

Yes, I've been staying away from all of that since I became an adult.

When you're a teenager, your mom would typically say, we need to take this pill, otherwise the world collapses.

Once I became a grown-up, I said, no, I don't think that the producers of pill are...

incentivized in the right way.

They're not really interested in eliminating the root of the problem.

They would rather have me dependent on the pills they're producing so that I could buy them forever.

And then I also realized, no, I'm not saying that you should never take pills.

There are obviously some diseases that you can only fight with antibiotics, for example.

So I'm not suggesting we go back to the Middle Ages.

But what I'm saying is we overuse pills.

This is something I practice every day.

I read some piece of news and I ask myself,

Who benefits from me reading this?