Sam Harris

And now I'm actually in dialogue with them.

And it's fantastic.

That's the promise of it, to actually talk to people.

And so I kept getting lured back into that.

No, the sane or sanity-preserving way of using it is...

just as a marketing channel.

You just put your stuff out there and you don't look at what's coming back at you.

And that's, you know, I'm on other social media platforms that I don't even touch.

I mean, my team posts stuff on Facebook and on Instagram.

I never even see what's on there.

No, that's definitely possible.

But the question is, and I did that for vast stretches of time, right?

But then-

the promise of the platform is dialogue and feedback, right?

So like, so why am I, if I know for whatever reason, I'm gonna see like 99 to one awful feedback, you know, bad faith feedback, malicious feedback.

Some of it's probably even bots and I'm not even aware of who's a person who's a bot, right?

But I'm just gonna stare into this funhouse mirror of,

and dishonesty that is going to... I mean, the reason why I got off is not because I couldn't recalibrate and find equanimity again with all the nastiness that was coming back at me, and not that I couldn't ignore it for vast stretches of time, but I could see that I kept coming back to it hoping that it would be something that I could use, a real tool for communication.

And I was noticing...

that it was insidiously changing the way I felt about people, both people I know and people I don't know.