Sam Harris

I mean, I was probably a pretty normal user.

I mean, I was not someone who was tweeting multiple times a day or even every day, right?

I think I probably averaged something like one tweet a day, I think I averaged.

But in reality, it'd be like four tweets one day and then I wouldn't tweet for the better part of a week.

But I was looking a lot because it was my newsfeed.

I was just following 200 very smart people and I just wanted to see what they were paying attention to.

They would recommend articles and I would read those articles.

And then when I would read an article that I thought I should signal boost, I would tweet.

And so all of that seemed good.

And that's all separable from all of the odious bullshit that came back at me largely in response to this Hunter Biden thing.

But even the good stuff has a downside.

And it comes at just this point of your phone is this perpetual stimulus of, which is intrinsically fragmenting of time and attention.

And now my phone is much less of a presence in my life.

And it's not that I don't check Slack or check email.

I use it to work, but...

my sense of just what the world is and my sense of my place in the world, the sense of where I exist as a person has changed a lot by deleting my Twitter account.

I mean, I had a, and it's just, and the things that I think, I mean, we all know this phenomenon.

We say of someone, that person's too online, right?

Like, what does it mean to be too online?

And where do you draw that boundary?