4/ Meanwhile, your actual friends just wanna grab tacos. Or go on a hike.

So text them. Or use Sevenn to bake up some real world fun together:
sevenn.co

IRL > URL

3/ But let’s be real:

Elon’s not coming to your birthday.

Trump’s not going on a bucket list adventure with you.

Neither of them is watering your plants while you’re out of town.

2/ Instead of watching two billionaires cage fight, maybe check in on that friend you’ve been meaning to text back.

Social media is fun. Great for memes and the occasional existential spiral.

2/ More than ever we need conversations about the role technology plays in our life and how to harness it for good.

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4/ Social health is a complex topic and this is only one piece of the puzzle of how do we get to a better place.

In particular because quality friendships are the most documented positive factor in our happiness, health and lifespan.

3/ The one that stood out for me was its impact on our socialization, especially among boys who are forming habits and communication skills that will last a lifetime.

Mens increasing struggle to create and maintain friends coincides with the rise of medicated childhood.

2/ But the evidence of its long-term efficacy have been overstated and its downsides understated.
Paul Tough’s excellent article covers how we got here and the nuances of ADHD that resist a single answer:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...

He was off by 8 years, but the world he outlined has rapidly come into focus in the past year.
www.ted.com/talks/kevin_...

4/ Collaborative jobs will create new task frontiers.

The best medical practitioners won't be a doctor or an AI, but rather the team of both. You'll be paid in the future by how well you work with bots. And there are no experts compared to what we'll know 20 years from now.

3/ Intelligence is electricity.

Previously everything was made with human muscle or animal power. The Industrial Revolution harnessed steam power & fossil fuels to make artificial power. AI is going to flow across the grid, so everything we electrified, we're going to cognify.

2/ There will be many forms of cognition.

We tend to think of intelligence as a single dimension like a note that gets louder and louder. But it's more a symphony of different notes and each of these is played on a different instrument of cognition.

1/ Technology has natural momentum.

The Internet was inevitable, but Twitter was not. We can actually steer the specifics by embracing the larger trend.

"The possible with social media was giving everyone a voice & helping people connect with friends. But we don't talk about the probable, what's likely to happen due to the incentives. And how the business models of maximizing engagement would lead to doomscrolling, more addiction & distraction."