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

They , they're doing a good job with it . Um But your decision to close your account on Twitter , um I think grabbed a lot of eyes and ears and um there's a lot of questions about why it was a very large account , you know , um it correlated with a number of things that for the outsider , people might be wondering about um you know , new leadership , uh new , you know , people who had been booted off , brought back on or at least invited back on and so on . Uh You are certainly not obligated to explain your behavior to me , uh or anybody else um for that matter .

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

It's like , well , if it's not , if , if this is what it's doing to Elon and he's got all these other things he could be doing with his attention . How much of my use of Twitter is actually , you know , a good idea and , you know , optimized to my well being and the well being of the people around me . Um So anyway , it was , there was an addictive component to it , I think .

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

This may seem like a divergence , but I , and many other people are very curious about a recent decision that you made , which was to close your account on Twitter . Um You still have an Instagram account I noticed , but I never , I mean , my team manages that .

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 .

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

I , and I didn't even , I didn't go back and look at my , like , what's interesting to consider is that , you know , I've been on Twitter for 12 years , I don't keep a journal . I mean , Twitter in my timeline would have been a kind of journal I could have gone back to a specific hour and a specific day and looked at what I was paying attention to . I mean , that could have been an interesting record of just who I've been for a decade and I , and , and , and probably a pretty humbling record of who I've been for a decade , Um in terms of the kinds of things that captivated my attention .