you may not be able to escape audience capture, but you can at least curate your audience so that you become captured in a way that's beneficial to you
there's this feeling which is the opposite of audience capture - this feeling when you find a group of people who give you permission to be more and more illegible and spontaneous
i love that feeling
Henrik Karlssonx.comI 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... See more
It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what... See more