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With everything you do, ask yourself: What am I feeding? What am I incentivising? What am I adding energy to by paying attention to it? It's not always obvious. It requires learning to ignore what you don't want & exalt what you do want. https://t.co/mEcfrnhkJT
Related: https://t.co/lxIlW7intO
To take Visa's excellent example: If you're a person who is reading this tweet & currently has a habit of saying "say her name, newsorg" ➡️every time you would do that, instead, find another newsorg covering that story WITH her name and RT that. (& maybe block/mute 1st newsorg)
Related, this excellent thread by @ncasenmare on free speech https://t.co/7l1ltRCQ7b
Here's another great positive example from @patio11: https://t.co/ZBKKXYSpuF
“Here's a budget breakdown of a couple that makes $500,000 a year and still feels average.” Currently trending news article; no citation because I don’t like rewarding evil. This sentence was intentionally crafted to make an audience hate someone to maximize ad revenue.
This isn't just on huge internet scales too. It's also in small in-person interactions. Who & what do I pay attention to? It's also just in your own mind. Which thoughts do you bother writing down? Which idle curiosities do you end up looking up? These compound.