Social Media Escape Club

Seth Werkheiser

Don't be brilliant. Be curious. Questions beget questions. Ideas beget ideas.

From Jay Acunzo’s newsletter ‘Better ideas in less time’

“Social media is free because you pay for it with your time.”

simon • The Battle for Your Time: Exposing the Costs of Social Media | Dino Ambrosi | TEDxLagunaBlancaSchool

Overthrowing Our Tech Overlords | NOEMA

noemamag.com

If you’re just posting and platforming because you feel like you should , then the point is to help tech billionaires buy more super yachts.

Courtney Romano • Hey Coco: Am I undisciplined?

Exploring the internet together should be like exploring a vast old library with your friends. Wandering down different shelves, skimming the pages that catch your eye, and occasionally one of you hollers in a whispering voice, "come check this out!"

Azlen • Tweet

Almost everything that is meaningful, beautiful, life-affirming, empowering, transformational, true—it can’t be reached by shortcuts. But what we can do is make the longcuts walkable, put out footbridges and stairs, and a table where the ocean comes into view.

Henrik Karlsson • On Shortcuts and Longcuts

“I made the thing I wished existed,” David Speed

https://substack.com/@davidspeeduk/note/c-59211722

Engagement is the new uniques. The traffic era of publishing has ended. Nobody brags about their ComScore uniques anymore; engagement is the new North Star.