Thinking more people are going to engage with you on mainstream social media “because everyone’s there” is like thinking people at a stadium concert are there to listen to you. It‘s only true if you’re one of the ones on stage. Not so much when you’re huddled in the nosebleeds.

Forget the numbers. Forget about “going viral” (leave it to the psychopaths in Silicon Valley to make virus-like behaviour aspirational). Embrace the joy of interacting with one another on a human scale.

#ThinkSmall

@aral Somehow this rings true with my impression of Native American values before the Eurasians came.

They abandoned empire after empire to live small. Each time they improved their administrative & power systems of power a bit so the next empire wouldn’t be able to create so much warfare or amass as much power.

(This was achieved through legends, tales of the birth of the people, and art, as they didn’t write.)