Things I'm Thinking About

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I really hate the term content creator. It’s such a corporate way of describing artists, writers, intellectuals, and other creatives who ultimately just want to create work they’re proud of.

Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more

Most of the social internet has become about building an audience and connecting people to brands and influencers. It’s better understood as a performance by the top 1%, not as a way to exchange knowledge or connect people to one another.

The more my career takes me in the direction of creative projects that require alone time, the more I realize being productive has very little to do with high-stakes meetings, rushing from point A to point B, or can’t catch a breath to-do lists that I will probably half-ass due to exhaustion.

Real power comes from slowing down. Focus is sacred.

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Words and language play an incredibly important role in our culture. Some examples I like:

1. Remote servers vs. The cloud. Remote servers are a bunch of physical servers stored in a data center somewhere in the world. “The cloud” sounds like a magic place with unlimited storage.

2. The entire technology industry uses the word “user” to describe it... See more

seeming has become more important than doing.

Curation is so deeply under-explored on the Internet in my opinion. It sits right in between consumption and creation and is the perfect bridge between the two, allowing us to actively engage with what we consume to then produce work from this saved knowledge.

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

The people I find most interesting on social media are using it as a sort of diary/note to self, not broadcasting to an audience.