Sam Harris on Social Media & Leaving Twitter | Dr. Sam Harris & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Um But I was noticing that many of the worst things that had happened for me professionally were first born on Twitter . I mean , just like , you know , some , some conflict I got into with somebody or something that I felt like I needed to podcast about in response to on Twitter . Um , it's just so much of it .

Sam Harris on Social Media & Leaving Twitter | Dr. Sam Harris & Dr. Andrew Huberman

It's either it's Genesis was Twitter or it's the , the , uh , the further spin of it that became truly unpleasant and dysfunctional happened on Twitter . Like it was just Twitter was part of the story when it was got really bad . And I've , I've had , you know , vacations that have gone sideways just because I got on Twitter and said something and then I had to produce a controversy that I had to respond to and then I had to do a podcast about that and it just , and it was just OK , this is a mess , right ?

Sam Harris on Social Media & Leaving Twitter | Dr. Sam Harris & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Right ? As , as was what was happening hourly on Twitter . Right .

Sam Harris on Social Media & Leaving Twitter | Dr. Sam Harris & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Just Tweet and Ghost , you know , just due to have like Joe Rogan sat me down and tried to get , you know , give me a talking to as did Bill Maher . Um and both of them engaged Twitter in that way . I mean , they , I think they basically never look at their at mentions , they never see what's coming back at them .

Sam Harris on Social Media & Leaving Twitter | Dr. Sam Harris & Dr. Andrew Huberman

I mean , it's amazing how much can't get fucked up now in my life . Like it's like with Twitter , almost anything could happen , right ? Like , like the next tweet was always an opportunity to massively complicate my life .