With Twitter especially, like during COVID, it was my attachment to society and community. But Twitter really flattens everything. Like, a tweet from a real, expert doctor about a COVID study would come after a tweet from somebody who doesn’t know anything and was making a glib joke about COVID case rates. Now, I can tell myself rationally that one... See more

“The contrast between global crisis and personal update is so stark, it creates a kind of emotional whiplash,” Ali Moran, the founder of a communications agency, told me. Moran continued, “Silence has become its own kind of statement, but so has posting something unrelated. It feels like there’s no right move.” It can feel safer to retreat... See more

I almost never want to step up on a stage, pick up a microphone, and announce what I’m thinking to everyone I know. And so, I almost never Tweet.

Nor do most people. The vast majority of us sit back and consume.

And that’s great if the goal is to numb our mind safter a long day of work. Or if it’s to keep up on news.

But insofar as the point of

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