Courtney Romano on SOCIAL MEDIA ESCAPE CLUB

The most important role in a social network is the vibe designer, because the big questions are sociological, not technological.

“The more that you can be building...with your audience so that they are invested in you...as a person and they want to follow you along from project to project, that's becoming table stakes.”

Our minds and bodies are coordinated by what we attend to and what we intend to do. By learning to consciously control these aspects of your internal experience—in conversation with others, on stage, and even on camera—you can indirectly change a lot about how you are perceived and the level of connection you can create. Instead of trying to contro

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I wanted an audience, but I also knew that having the wrong audience would be worse than having no audience, because they'd constrain me with their expectations, forcing me to focus on one tiny niche of my worldview at the expense of everything else, until I became a parody of myself.

It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what othe... See more

Jon: But isn’t that the whole—I mean, there’s a certain arrogance in us entering this business. There’s an arrogance in the idea of saying, Where’s that spotlight shining? Oh, it’s up on the stage? Well shit, why don’t I walk up there? What’s in here that’s going to amplify my voice? Is that a microphone? All right, so I got a light shining on me,

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