flâneur

After a Month-Long Twitter Break - by Sasha Chapin

sashachapin.substack.com · 1,375 words · saved by 1 readers

beep boop

It’s obvious that Twitter has benefited my life a lot. For one thing, it’s directly responsible for most of my current relationships, personal and professional. Also, it’s been fun and has introduced me to ideas that have influenced my life in a really positive way. However, after taking a month-long break from Twitter, it’s more obvious that it was having a potent negative mental effect on me—it has been net good for my life by being extraordinarily good while also being quite bad. To say it’s “distracting” undersells it. When I hear “distracting,” I think of a fire alarm going off or a…

related reading