Gabriel Mizrahi

But listen, I just want to reiterate, you are going through an exceptionally tough time right now.

And I do think it's okay to flounder a little bit right now.

We all have those chapters.

If this time ends up being about treading water while you take care of your cat and you try to find a new way of talking with your partner while you do this temporary job, I know it's very painful, but that might not be the worst thing in the world.

Stressful, uncertain, difficult, yes, sure, but maybe also, in another way, potentially productive.

Once one or two of these challenges ease up, and like Jordan said at the beginning, they do have a way of doing that weirdly, I promise it will get easier to tackle the other things.

But trying to do all of these things at once can be, it just makes you want to roll over and give up.

No, we have a lot of work to do in February, Jordan.

All right, next up.

Hey, Jordan and Gabe.

My mom and I are extremely close, and she has always been an amazing support in so many different areas of my life.

Some of our most interesting conversations lately have been about politics, as we have different political approaches that are genuinely fun to debate with someone who has points that will challenge my beliefs.

These conversations have led me to realize how much of an echo chamber I have unwittingly fallen into.

My mom and I swapped feeds and shared with each other some of the more political posts that are being shown to us, and the difference in messaging between our two feeds was incredibly disheartening, but very illuminating.

I can see why we are so divided as a society.

Also, I love that you and your mom can talk like this, that you're doing this feed swap thing together.

It's very sweet.

Do you have any advice on how to grow my social network to include people with different beliefs so I can have more of these constructive conversations?

Do you have any advice on staying up to date on news that is more focused on the problems and solutions instead of political power struggles?

Do you have any checks and balances you use to ensure that you are getting the full context of news stories?