I wonder if this is a side effect of social media. When I post a bit of data or something I learned, I think of it as throwing a fact out into the ether.
People who read the post, however, experience it as someone they know telling them *as an individual* something that should be relevant to them.
— Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) Aug 27, 2024 at 11:47 AM