It’s hard living in an Echo Chamber community if you don’t believe the community’s narrative. You either keep your mouth shut and feel distant from the other people, or you become a contrarian and, at best, find yourself in a lot of unpleasant interactions (at worst, you end up cut off from the community).
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
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threads.net1) It must be exhausting to read things in order to get mad at them. 2) The social-media internet was built around finding things to get mad at. 3) That motivation ultimately made everything bad. 4) I don’t want to do that; I want people to read newsletters (or articles) because they want to be surprised and delighted by them, because we’re on simi... See more
Kyle Chayka • 🟧 The internet’s distribution problem
I don’t want to live in a world where the only vibes are bad, but I cannot stay for long in a room where the only vibes allowed are the pleasant ones, either.