Social Media Escape Club
People in my profession say all the time that they can't do their jobs without Twitter, and it drives me so crazy because I think most of them are worse at their jobs because of Twitter. The reason is that Twitter, as do other forms of social media, gets you to lose control of what you care about. You lose that intentionality with your own... See more
Clay Skipper • Ezra Klein’s Formula for a Good Day Involves These Four Things
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
Are we going to keep compromising ourselves to cater for an ever-decreasing attention span?
I’m Saying BYE to 100K Instagram Followers
To feel sexy, we need risk and spontaneity. Our phones kill both.
Catherine Shannon • Your Phone Is Why You Don't Feel Sexy
“Remove everything and start adding back only the content I really want to consume. And in doing that, this time around, I should be a lot more deliberate, a lot more careful in what I add. Because now more than ever, in this age of infinite digital abundance, quality really is more important than quantity.”
https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/input-
... See more“If you only exist in the minds of your consumers as an Instagram handle, you haven’t built a brand. You’ve built an account,” Jamie R Cox
https://brandburnout.substack.com/p/am-i-the-girl-who-deleted-instagram
Since 2015, I’ve felt like social media was an addictive high-speed treadmill, designed to keep us running to exhaustion, getting increasingly worse with each year.