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> At a recent public lecture, Yong compared social media and birding as alternate ways to spend his time.
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> “I spent a lot of my time and my life on social media [in the past], caring about what people who I don’t actually care about are saying and thinking, and wasting a huge amount of emotional and mental energy,” he says. “And now I spend an equivalent amount of energy trying to work out whether that small probing shorebird is a Western Sand­piper or a Semipalmated Sandpiper. And one of those things is a total waste of my time, and it’s desperately uncool. And it is not the sandpiper thing.”

(https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ed-yong-writer-bird-immersion/)