On Being Resilient

As you probably know by now (even if you didn’t want to), the social media site Twitter was recently purchased by Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, for $44 billion dollars. He immediately took the company private, fired much of the workforce in performative and arbitrary ways and with relished Big Male Energy meanness. As advertisers fled, he tried to assure them that invitations to purchase their goods and services wouldn’t appear in users’ feeds…