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The Minimalists

Aligning Our Online and Offline Selves

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Joshua and Ryan discuss how we must strive to treat one another appropriately both online and off with director Nick Bilton and artist Chris Bailey of HBO’s Fake Famous. Listen to the full episode at patreon.com/theminimalists

Transcript

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0:00.0

Da Minimists.

0:03.1

Like Twitter, for example, all the trolls on Twitter, like they would never,

0:07.7

Oh, they would never to your face.

0:09.4

They would never talk like that.

0:10.5

I have a interesting story about this.

0:12.0

It is such a fake world. Go for it.

0:13.4

So I was covering a trial when I was at the New York Times,

0:16.5

I was covering a trial in New York.

0:17.8

And when you're in the courtroom, you don't have access to your phone and the journalist

0:22.9

or old, old squished off to a side.

0:24.6

And I was sitting with a woman.

0:26.4

I won't mention her name.

0:27.5

But and she was lovely.

0:30.1

Just we spent three weeks together.

0:32.9

And at the end of it, I flew back to LA.

0:37.7

And there was a few people I had like become friendly with lunch and coffees and whatever

0:42.9

in the in the courthouse.

0:44.0

I didn't have my phone.

0:44.7

And I was like, oh, let me go follow all these people.

0:46.8

So I'd start following them all.

0:48.4

And this one woman had blocked me.

0:51.4

And it's been three weeks with her.

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