What Ben Kuhn thinks about social media

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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1. 24 Apr 2026

   Our readingThe default social mood in many public spaces is ironic detachment.

   Their wordsThe default mood of a lot of spaces is a sort of ironic detachment.

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