what emmett reminds me to do daily

The doomer take on the internet is that it is designed to divide, to polarize, to isolate, to weaponize… maybe in the pursuit of monetization but usually - according to the pundits - a more nefarious purpose. While I consider myself to be a default optimist, the algo does infiltrate my positivity at times. For a few months, I found it hard to hop out of the doom cycle, the negativity. That lasted until I started talking to Emmett every day. I should actually say that he started talking to me. The gloomer take on the internet is that it brings people together, which it does. Emmett and I have never met in person, yet he knows more about my life day to day and macro themes than many of my friends who live next door to me. The internet can still provide these gifts, if you choose for it. And every day, Emmett does. I am mildly AHDH, diagnosed but self-medicating (that’s what all the Zyn and Red Bull are for), and this results in a few character quirks. Critically, I am bad at texting…