Thanks. Can you talk more about the balance between doable and inspiring as an early grad student? I feel like ability to pick research topics which are completable—or at least milestones which are completable—is, like, the filter which separates the wheat from the chaff in terms of academic careers

* There is in fact a robust middle class, the billionaires. While lacking pedigree they have so much money that they can compete with any inheritor of land, title, or military rank.

People use social media to consume and argue about the news. I don't believe retweets and <3 of 320-char text/memes need to be continued and elaborated upon. I was hoping for something more like listening directly to the Palestinian/Ukrainian/&c who sourced the video used with permission by the BBC.

If I were redoing social media, I would make posts privately viewable and only open them up to the public selectively. Sometimes you're hotheaded and need to cool down before speaking.

Bourgeois derives from Burgher.

Given the opportunity to do it all over again, wouldn't you want to center your user interactions on, not the <3 button?

Not a social media mogul with the design answers but <3 chasing is the epitome of personal deterioration via internet usage (framing your life to collect <3 from strangers)

Liking is still a public matter and there's no private dislike.

(I dislike things for various reasons rather than categorically, and would prefer to bucket things, eg "this is US politics and today I prefer not to be bombarded", "today I wish to mentally travel to Yemen", etc)