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'More real life'! YES!

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I’m one of those hanger-ons with Twitter, because there’s a good community of those engaged in improving healthcare via patient and public engagement, and I don’t know what a public square offline looks like for such a dispersed crowd.

(I yelled all that but my cat just glared at me.)

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Yes, the networked exchanges really do have the power to bring people together in ways that the real world just can't. The Twitter format really nagged at me, though, because it just flattened interactions so drastically. As I agreed with Jillian Hess, I'm a long-form kinda guy. And academic Twitter will persist, at least as long as the seepage of active users is more or less contained. See "#AcademicTwitter Will Endure—for Now" (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/11/04/professors-and-academics-will-stay-twitter%E2%80%94-now).

There's got to be a better way to maintain and nurture the communities. I think Substack is helpful, though I think it might succumb to other pressures as it grows.

Have a great weekend, Bryn!

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You too, Mark!

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I was yelling really loud at 6:30 in the morning, and my wife came down the stairs and glared at me. Thanks Mark. 😉

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Oh, that explains the noise.

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