I can’t be the only one who’s gotten that unsolicited weekly usage report from my iPhone and thought the average time was for the week—not the day.
…Luckily, I’m able to quickly justify it because of my insatiable desire to learn through long-form podcasts.
Yes, I’m delusional, but so are you!
Most of us are online a lot of the time.
Somewhere along the line we became unhinged from our ‘digital self.’
We started to believe we could say and do things online because that was just our shadow self, our avatar.
We get into weird arguments and draw hard lines. We barge into conversations with high passion and ‘low to no expertise’ and then scratch our heads in disbelief when it’s not embraced. It’s madness. But why?
Would we do that in real life?
How often do you find yourself arguing with someone at the grocery store? When’s the last time you insulted your neighbor? “Hey Scott, the guy you voted for is an idiot!”
The answer should be never, I hope! But it happens all the time online.
Here’s the problem: Who you are online is who you are.
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