Social Media Escape Club
To change the stigma around needing to be constantly available and avoid phone addiction as a whole, Sheeran made the decision to get rid of his phone and only use an iPad. His primary method of communication is now email, with the singer explaining that he only checks it around once per week
Ed Sheeran reveals he hasn’t owned a cell phone since 2015
Seeking out lesser-known voices isn’t just an act of cultural curation; it’s a philosophical stance, a refusal to let attention be the only metric that matters. Because the most interesting stuff usually happens on the margins.
Threads is adding view counts. This is probably a good place to put that my Threads referral traffic has completely cratered, as I knew it would. The decision to show view counts is, I assume, part of the typical Meta tactic to get people to care more about on-site engagement that any kind of real traffic.
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“You can always create a short-term commotion to get a bit of attention. But you can’t possibly hype your way into being trusted.“
If I wake up and touch my phone, I’ve already lost hours. Not because I’m browsing social media for hours, but because the mind has already been agitated, made unquiet, and the context switch back into thoughtfulness can take the whole morning. In other words, the addict part of my brain takes over and contaminates my ability to be contemplative. I... See more
Craig Mod • Offscreen Magazine Interview
no one is thinking about you. No one is as hyper-fixated and obsessed with the smallest details of every piece of my work as I am, and that feels sort of freeing.
Lauren Puckett-Pope • Why Hunter Harris and Peyton Dix Recommend Quitting Your Dream Job
On Appnesia and Other Ailments
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Don't be brilliant. Be curious. Questions beget questions. Ideas beget ideas.
From Jay Acunzo’s newsletter ‘Better ideas in less time’