https://minutesof.com/on/social-media/ Everyone on the record about social media: 6 verbatim quotes from 4 people, April 2020 to March 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:15 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/ae3d803c-2ca0-4deb-bd9f-97e93f51e0c1/ https://minutesof.com/q/ae3d803c-2ca0-4deb-bd9f-97e93f51e0c1/ “Nowadays, people in the ninetieth percentile think they're middle class, and people in the fiftieth percentile don't think they're middle class. Yeah.” — Dylan Patel, Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 social media https://minutesof.com/q/84255bb5-5d61-4cea-82d3-857cd10c3838/ https://minutesof.com/q/84255bb5-5d61-4cea-82d3-857cd10c3838/ “you watch the shows on TV and you get somebody on who says, you should buy and some people buy and then the next guest says you should sell and things go like this.” — Howard Marks, The Church Sag Harbor Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:45:03 +0000 social media https://minutesof.com/q/55f61ec0-6f28-428a-8d63-b1211788dc24/ https://minutesof.com/q/55f61ec0-6f28-428a-8d63-b1211788dc24/ “leadership, as Sax points out, needs to and has to be willing and able to lead, which means being contrarian and being inspiring.” — David Friedberg, Megyn Kelly Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:00:09 +0000 social media https://minutesof.com/q/bd5a5a57-1a06-4baa-adc9-ab90219e0f53/ https://minutesof.com/q/bd5a5a57-1a06-4baa-adc9-ab90219e0f53/ “Because of the fast feedback cycles that we talked about earlier, and that a point of view, kind of the mob coalesces around the point of view, you end up electing the person who represents the mob, which means that ultimately over time in a democracy, in the social media age, is you don't end up electing leadership.” — David Friedberg, Megyn Kelly Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:00:09 +0000 social media https://minutesof.com/q/dc35f67f-d5fc-4de0-81c5-507578438945/ https://minutesof.com/q/dc35f67f-d5fc-4de0-81c5-507578438945/ “And Facebook is basically a product of Middle America plus kind of like countries outside The United States and, you know, Twitter is about, you know, rich coastal kind of people.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 02:45:29 +0000 social media https://minutesof.com/q/e2efb4cb-0081-4aec-aead-9382862bcc04/ https://minutesof.com/q/e2efb4cb-0081-4aec-aead-9382862bcc04/ “I think the last data I saw, this was a Telecom Italia stat, so we should not mix and match, but Telecom Italia saw video game traffic up 75% and social media traffic up 0%.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:30:00 +0000 social media