Hey there, friend, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. Today's

micro show is, I'm just going to come out and say it, right? I don't like social media.

It's wearing on me. And this could sound odd, right, coming from me, given I've built a huge part

of my career, my personal brand,

relationships across the internet via social media. And, you know, a quick retracing of this,

you know, started off with my blog years ago where shared all kinds of a new level of

unfiltered details on how I was building my career.

Look at the podcast, for example.

That's not necessarily social media, but it was a very early version.

We were the first to shoot live.

I've had all sorts of amazing guests in there.

And I have, you know, verifiable proof from other friends who started their

shows, Tim, Rich Roll, Ryan Holiday have sort of referenced the original versions of this podcast

as big inspirations for their show. So again, social media has been valuable to me, not even

to mention actual technical social media like YouTube and Instagram and Facebook and whatnot.

And those were platforms where I built large audience, audience of millions to, you know,

communicate with creatives and entrepreneurs all over.

So you're like, wait a minute, if you can point to all of these sort of important things

that have come around social media, how can you say, I don't really love social

media? All of these things can be true and I can still also have a sense, have an awareness

on a visceral level with data and a gut feeling around all of the ways that social media has encouraged so many facets of the human condition

that chip away at our culture, our humanity, not the least of which is chipping away on my peace of mind as well.

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