I Quit Social Media and Lived to Tell

One reason it’s useful to study history is that it teaches you to spot patterns. You come to understand certain regularities in how human societies operate and how improvements in social conditions occur (or are thwarted).

Social media was the fifth of five things I quit over a five-month period. I knew withdrawal by now. Everything about social media is addictive, even the negative stuff…

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It’s important to remember what once seemed like a lot of money to you. When I dropped out of college to work as an assistant in Hollywood, I took a salary of $30,000. I remember saying to myself–no joke–”What am I going to do with all this money?”

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