Adam Oleksik

Think about what videos are not showing up because there's always a survivorship bias to what's filtered.

The thing that's showing up is generating engagement.

It's past content guidelines for the platform.

It's targeted to the platform's idea of who you are, which is an incorrect idea in the same way that the word delve is incorrectly represented.

And then along with that, strategies for how to remain present and mindful and literate.

So I think the thing we least like about scrolling is that it makes us feel like we just wasted a bunch of time.

I've personally sort of found ways to extract meaning and presence from being on social media, but it takes like turning off the cognitive frames that they're trying to trick you into.

And that's part of it as well.

Something that is weird and different from what other people have done.

And you have to draw on something that exists already, I suppose, but remix it in a new way.

Drawing the connection between the data points that doesn't exist yet, yeah.

Okay, ritual.

I do have a ritual.

So it's become a yearly tradition that my birthday is on January 3rd and the Moby Dick Marathon in New Bedford, Massachusetts is also on January 3rd.

So I'm going with a bunch of friends to read Moby Dick for 25 hours.

It's terrible.

It's wonderful.

Yeah, it's a really painful experience, but I think it's the only way you can read Moby Dick.

And you kind of go mad along with Captain Ahab.

No, no.