Sit on a bench downtown for an hour with no phone. You’ll learn more about people than any feed can show you.

Watching real people for an unedited hour gives you something no feed contains: the ordinary middle of human behaviour. Online you see the peaks and the fights, because those travel. On a bench you see how a stranger holds a door, hesitates, gives up on something. That is the real distribution of people, and it is calmer than the version you carry around.

Take an hour somewhere public with nothing to look at. Boredom will arrive first and then curiosity, in that order. Let the second one show up before you decide it is not working.