Transcript: Yeah, I mean, listening to Mark Andresen on Riverbend's podcast and him talking about McLuhan and all of these things, it's like, yeah, maybe you do have to play the game as well of social media at the moment, because that's the landscape we live in. It's like, that's probably true to some degree. And also, I am looking very much to continue to express myself much further than what the media landscape currently affords. And I think maybe that's the big thing. It's like, I do have all of these interests, and I want to make them a little bit more visible. And I guess I would have to make a very concerned effort to do that today and basically build a brand for each thing. And maybe that's not just where I'm at. It's like, I don't want to, maybe I'm not interested in building a brand to that degree, but I am looking to connect with people who are talking and thinking about similar things and building community from that. That's like more where I'm at, and Twitter can help, because you can get connected to everyone, but filtering to actually find those people, I still think is quite difficult in the sense like, I had a great conversation with Matthew yesterday, and that came through a friend, basically. That came through my mutual connection with John, and yeah, I mean, he's one of those connector people, but also there's got to be some better ways of doing that and also expressing yourself. And I think he is also on the same train of that in some way of like, how do I put that out there further? Yeah, I want it to be a little bit more second nature for me. I'm willing to express a lot of the things that I do, at least put them out there, yeah.
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