Jimmy Wales

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6,110 appearances 12 recordings 11 series first heard Jun 2023 last heard 21 Jun

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The Little Things · Jimmy Wales on why the internet is such an angry place · 8 May 2026 podcast

They're not good people, you know, and they're behind a keyboard and it's tempting and they just think I'm going to have a whack at this person and see what they do, you know, and it's just not healthy.

So I'm a big advocate, you know, in your personal life.

One of the things I've done that's made my...

life much better is i deleted social media off my phone i still have my twitter account but it's on my computer and i you know i'm like a lot of people um you know if you're a journalist or if you're doing a podcast or whatever you probably do still need to be on twitter there's an audience there and it's oh good for you if you're not you know and um you know but

keep it off your phone.

And then that way, because the phone obviously is a very attractive object and it's great for those boring moments when you're in a queue somewhere.

But I'd much rather be scrolling through

uh, you know, tech news or reading on the latest developments in AI where I'm doing something I find interesting, but it actually, in some ways going to improve my life.

I'm actually going to come away and say, Oh, actually, there's some value.

And that, and of course I'm, I just named a couple of things that sound quite worthy, but it can just be like, actually, I'm, I'm binge watching a show and I want to know when the next episode's coming out or, you know, whatever it might be.

Um, so, um,

You know, I think we can make choices, and I think we should try to make choices to say, like, actually, if some kind of social media is making you unhappy, then just stop doing it.

Like, just pull away from it.

And actually, the hardest part sometimes is to stop and go, like, you know what, actually...

I've always thought I was enjoying this, that I, you know, that this is, you know, oh, I'm addicted to it.

I love Twitter.

I'm on there all the time.

And it's like, no, I'm addicted to it, but not because I love it and think it's great.

It's because it's toxic and, you know, I've gotten into a bad habit.

Yeah, exactly.

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