itsjustmath.net

April 17, 2025

5:55pm -

On the same side of downstream effects of social media, electronic, fast media evades reflection time. It’s that other piece I want to write about, the radicalization of Elon Musk, how these platforms encourage, enable, supercharge that. It’s also becoming so clear to me how much this type of media environment fractures people’s attentions, conditions them to seek solace from any moment of discomfort, how much it changes our ability to do the deep reflective kind of thinking that is essential for us to be better angels of our nature.