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4/ Instead of a simple identity we can all be philosophers, writers, musicians, artists, etc.. Our ability to recognize individuality hasn't kept pace so we end up feeling alienated and unseen.

5/ Ironically, tech culture, which isn't exactly known for having diversity offers a potential solution. Raising standards.

6/ So what if you can learn piano or juggling in a few hours over youtube what previously required traveling the world and years of meeting people and practice. Everyone else can do the same.

7/ If you refuse to label yourself and keep your identity small no matter how great you feel you are at something, there's less room to feel unseen and less opportunity for ego to get triggered.

8/ Competition, bell curves & the free market check ego via global calibration. Without it all you have is your circle of friends which fall into the traps of (1) feel good circle jerk (2) thinly veiled dog-eat-dog competition (3) cold professional pragmatism

9/ Actual friendship requires refusing to judge others as well as yourself. The internet makes this easier because we present smaller slices of ourselves making everything more difficult to judge. But only if you view the other as 99% mysterious.

10/ When we start putting people into boxes based on small slices, we tend to make caricatures out of people. We end up fighting ourselves because our minds are what creates these caricatures.

11/ In the early days of the internet and even the early days of facebook we had this mysterious quality. It felt like the world was suddenly a lot bigger. Now that it no longer feels mysterious it feels claustrophobic.