Courtney Romano on SOCIAL MEDIA ESCAPE CLUB
What would happen if you did a Zoom call with the people who follow your work? Or if you planned a small dinner with other creative people in your orbit? Say we use the internet as a tool to make the plans, and then we close the laptop and build with the handful of people in front of us - then what? What could we do that we’re avoiding because we’r
... See moreI 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
It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what othe... See more
Gurwinder • The Perils of Audience Capture
Death of the Follower & the Future of Creativity on the Web With Jack Conte | SXSW 2024 Keynote
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Many seem to believe fame is fun until it’s the big, bad, alienating kind, but I’d argue the challenges start at the beginning—with any modicum of attention online, say—and scale from there. Finding peace, I think, requires a certain trepidation around your desire to be seen as exceptional. I saw this idea captured perfectly the other day, by the a... See more
#221: “The tension of staying too long”
One of the important lessons we all learn managing a small team of creatives - especially those of us having wonky work life balance issues - is learning to take subtle cues from your crew.
They often know better than we do, when it's time to call it a day & just chill. https://t.co/9VaqNrMGwW