The feeds on Instagram are often driven by algorithms and what you search. So here I am, I've been a physician for 20-plus years, I know the data on statins, and I'm starting to think maybe I don't need a statin. And then I'm getting more doctors' feeds that are saying you don't need to be on a statin.
Which means that puberty is the worst possible time for a human being to be on social media. For our ultra-social species, that rewiring should be guided by huge amounts of social interaction in the real world, not by TikTok's algorithm.
the gap between that public self and the messy vulnerability of our private selves is often huge. And that's true whether you're talking about how your life is actually going versus the Instagram post you just put up or that you saw of someone else, or how professional and put together you're seeming on a Zoom call when actually you're not wearing any pants, just out of the frame.
The instant I saw that a friend of mine was streaming himself eating at Chili's. I knew it would be a cultural touchstone moment that I simply could not pass up on.
I was trying to capture that initial innocence that we all had. The sense that you were almost in a private room with your friends rather than having it be this public forum that everyone across the world could attend.
3mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
