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James Clear, Robert Greene, Brad Stulberg, Tom Nichols, and Julia Baird on the Writer’s Process

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

I Don't Like the Almond Brothers

The author says social media appeals to a basic human attraction to division and conflict. He argues that the failures of expertse have not made us more likely to accept dubious information from even less creditable people, because they are an excuse. The public has been so rough on about the failures, rather than the successes, that experts now don't want to engage with the public or own their failures.

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