How Social Media Affects Our Reasoning Capacities

Jakub Ferencik
8 min readJul 23, 2021

A book is like a mirror: if an ass looks in, you can’t expect an apostle to look out. ‒ G. C. Lichtenberg

What is the true value of our attention?

⁣The other day I was walking down a bridge in my hometown in Ruzomberok, Slovakia, and I looked up at the river and the mountain in the…

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Jakub Ferencik

Author of “Up in the Air,” “Beyond Reason,” & "Surprised by Uncertainty" on AMAZON | MA McGill Uni | 750+ articles with 1+ mil. views