The Focus Shift

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much of ourselves we’ve just given away over the last decade. If you saw my last piece on how Social Media is Changing, you know I’m obsessed with the idea that our digital lives shouldn’t belong to a billionaire in a hoodie. But honestly, it’s personal for me. I spent years on the old-school platforms, posting through the highs and the absolute lows. Looking back, especially during times when my mental health wasn’t great and I was making questionable choices. Those platforms didn’t care about me as a human being. They cared about the data generated by my chaos. They tracked every frantic click and every late-night scroll, packaged it up, and sold it to the highest bidder while I got nothing but a dopamine hit and a headache.

That’s why I’m so fired up about Focus. It’s a newer platform built on the DeSo blockchain that basically says, “Hey, your time is actually worth something.” It’s not just about decentralized tech either, it’s about human value and reclaiming the you that has been auctioned off for years. I wish I had understood this back in the day. I used to be on DeSo all the time, but life got messy…