Sam Harris

That's obviously good.

I have those moments on Twitter where it's like, okay, I'm hearing from a smart person who's detected an error I made in my podcast or in a book, or they've just got some great idea about something that I should spend time on.

And I would never have heard from this person in any other format.

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,