The Story of Us
by Tim Urban · first published 2022
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> Can you explain how social media is an actual threat to the democracy or democratic process to a reasonable person? The best explanation I've read of this is Tim Urban's "The Story of Us" series [1]. It builds up a model from individual behavior to societal behavior and how it's changed over the decades due to how online interactions have shifted behavior (both individual and societal).…
on “Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious” ↗…actually has little to do with religion, despite the title), and "The Tail End" [2]. Each one gave me new ways of looking at life and relationships, in ways that I haven't thought before. I started "The Story of Us" [3], but haven't gone through all. I think it crossed the threshold of long-blog-post and became almost a book-in-a-blog. [1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious... [2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html…
on “Ask HN: Where are you going to find long-form content online these days?” ↗SS: Chapter 7 of Tim Urban's The Story of Us. You can find the series' table of contents here: https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html
on “The Thinking Ladder” ↗