Sam Harris

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?

How do you know what constitutes being too online?

In some sense, I think being on social media at all is to be too online.

Given what it does to... Given the kinds of information, it signal boosts.

And given the impulse it kindles in each of us to reach out to our audience in specific moments and in specific ways, right?

It's like...

there are lots of moments now where I have an opinion about something, but there's nothing for me to do with that opinion, right?