Without social media many of you who enjoy the writing and analysis of OZFest, Cultural Courage and Severed Conscience would not be reading this article today. In fact many of those kind of enough to subscribe have come from the social media function Notes in Substack and from social media platforms likeTwitter. I do want to point out that I think Substack is more of a reading platform and not a social media platform, yet clearly there are shared characteristics between Notes on Substack and social media. We have many powerful mechanisms for conveying ideas and information, but as with many things, misuse and overuse leads to atrophy of other skills, muscles and even our thinking. Something is gained while something is lost.