Honestly, I think it's made us more confidently dumb. We've got all this information at our fingertips but less patience to actually understand anything deeply. We skim, we share, we move on. I catch myself doing it constantly - feeling like I know about something after reading three Reddit comments.

Look, the internet is a tool. Like any tool, it depends on how you use it. Yeah, I can look up medical symptoms and convince myself I'm dying, or I can use the same resources to educate myself on topics I care about. We're smarter AND dumber - simultaneously.

It's definitely made us more confident, which isn't always good. Everyone's got an opinion on everything now because they can Google it in thirty seconds. We mistake information retrieval for actual expertise, and that's kind of terrifying when you think about it.

The internet gave me the confidence to start a business I wouldn't have dreamed of without access to free courses, forums, and mentorship from strangers. That's real. But it's also given me analysis paralysis from reading conflicting advice. Both things are true.