[This is a reposting of something I wrote just when I started Small Potatoes. I’ve substantially edited and revised it, but kept some of the old-timey examples.]
I think (FWIW) "Your Followers May Hate You" is a good description of how the interwebs pulls the curtain back, and the mob that's revealed is too self-absorbed to notice. And a lot of people are somehow (i.e. human brain ownership) still unaware that they're the mob making the noise. It's why I personally avoid reading comments in general, unless it's from people who know me, and have a reasonable basis on which to make an actual, likely sound observation on this/me/etc. We should all have to earn the respect that should be required for anyone else at all to care what we say/think ... yup.
Wow! Great post, Paul!
Heh.
I think (FWIW) "Your Followers May Hate You" is a good description of how the interwebs pulls the curtain back, and the mob that's revealed is too self-absorbed to notice. And a lot of people are somehow (i.e. human brain ownership) still unaware that they're the mob making the noise. It's why I personally avoid reading comments in general, unless it's from people who know me, and have a reasonable basis on which to make an actual, likely sound observation on this/me/etc. We should all have to earn the respect that should be required for anyone else at all to care what we say/think ... yup.
Amazing 🤩
(Nobody fucking cares when I quote Adam Smith and I wrote a fucking book about him)
Oh, so now you are calling it Smart Potatoes, huh???!!
Oops. Fixed.
Too late. Smart Potatoes is too good to forget.
Hello professor
I've been following your account for a while, and it's been great. Thank you for writing.
Fukk u
^ This guy internets.
https://substack.com/@tylersayles/note/c-183275403?r=l8hfm&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Chuckling to myself