Sam Harris

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?

Like there's no Twitter, right?

So like there are lots of things that I would have tweeted in the last months,

that are not the kind of thing I'm going to do a podcast about.

I'm not going to roll out 10 minutes on that topic on my podcast.

I'm not going to take the time to really think about it.

But had I been on Twitter, I would have reacted to this thing in the news or this thing that somebody did, right?

What do you do with that thought now?

I just let go of it.

Yeah, it's usually not that sort of thing.

But it's just...

But then you look at the kinds of problems people create for themselves.

You look at the life deranging and reputation destroying things that people do.

And I look at the analogous things that have happened to me.

I mean, the things that have really bent my life around professionally over the past decade.

so much of it is Twitter.

I mean, honestly, in my case, almost 100% of it was Twitter.

The controversies I would get into, the things I would think I would have to respond to in a pod, like I would release a podcast on a certain topic, I would see some blowback on Twitter.