Its scary to say something that might make The Market stop giving you a job, yeah... A lot of people retreat to private chats. It takes courage to be authentic in public!

ya. I haven't turned this pithy thought into like a whole philosophy but it does feel like the original point of social media was to turn Social Energy (byproduct of living as a social creature) into Media Energy (commodities that can participate in a Market and be translated into Investor Value) and that's actually worked more or less in a lot of places

i do this and i hate it but idk how to stop being afraid

I have specific opinions on this but I feel those opinions might make people angry, and therefore I will stay quiet but nod agreeingly.

the fact that this is my take is not hilariously lost on me.

David J Prokopetz might not bat a thousand but he bats real damn high.

That's why everyone talks about "building your brand" instead of "existing in a shared social space."