Chris Best

People get to know each other.

You know, people...

become friends in real life because of somebody they met in the blog comments.

Like that's a thing that increasingly happens.

And so I think, you know, part of it is, yeah, creating the part of the digital world that actually lets you live and interact in a human way and doesn't reduce you to a

passive consumer, but lets you be part of a community and act back.

That's really important.

I also think, you know, that third phase, like the internet becomes real life, right?

I've been to meetups that sub stackers have, and you'll have somebody that's, that's a, you know, a blogger.

And they show up at a bar in San Francisco and there's 100 people there treating them like a fucking rock star.

And you have this like this real set of people that have formed around this shared idea or interest or community.

You know, the places where the Internet can then spill back into actual real life.

where it's not only a substitute for seeing people in person, but can cause you to see people in person, I think that's really important and valuable too.

I do.

And I do think the problem is real.

I think it's easy to overstate it.

I think there's sort of a sense in which every generation turns around and says, kids these days are failing in these ways and they're rotting their brains.

And I think you could have said that about TV for my generation and the generation before.

And it was probably true to some extent.

The way I look at it is,