Life above the API tends to mean anonymity — there's not a lot of (real, personal) social media use among elites. It's about privacy, not being easily reached outside inner circle networks, which tend to be pretty traditional in how they work and communicate.

Brian Eno predicted long ago that we'd have to create fake personas and inject personal disinformation into the world to keep from being targetted by niche marketing too accurately, but mere privacy and maybe insulation from influence campaigns we can't refuse seem to be how it's shaking out.

@greenshady I'm really enjoying your writing here. Very much so! :-)