Being in the real world generally makes me happy.

Looking at the "discourse" - read: the algorithmic hologram - of social media makes me instantly miserable.

I would like to change my life & find a way to spend my remaining finite years alive doing the former & none of the latter.

I don't exactly know how to do this yet, because up until now I have worked in journalism and politics, and all of that is now fused to the attention economy rather than the real world.

But that's my life goal, and if anyone has any advice on how to make it happen short of just getting completely out of this work, retraining for a different way to earn a subsistence and disappearing, I'm all ears.