Technology creates an illusion of control that risks robbing us of meaning

> the ethos of control, the determination to have complete awareness of one’s environment, to anticipate every adverse outcome and manage it in advance, is, if anything, more insidious than surveillance capitalism — for we experience it not as something imposed on us from without but as something that arises from within.

Agreed, optimizing has a limit beyond which it starts to reduce quality and enjoyment of life