Social Media Escape Club
There are those who believe the social web is reaching its terminal point. I hope they’re right. Platform after platform was designed to make it easier and more addictive for us to share content with one another so the corporations behind them could sell ever more of our attention and data. In different ways, most of these platforms are now in
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Recalling the specifics now, I can see more clearly exactly what’s being lost. Scrolling displaces observation, shuts out occasions for self-generated thought, silences out-of-the-blue invitations. Checking the phone reroutes the discomfort of blankness and emptiness. It stoppers authentic—often anxious—waiting.
Lia Purpura Published • The Ecology of Attention
many of us are addicted and don’t even come to the internet for joy, knowledge or connection anymore— we just do it because we are 100% wired into the machine and can’t break the cycle.
Stephen Moore • I Kinda Hate The Internet Now - by Stephen Moore
If you are stuck in a mall food court with only bad food, and you are hungry, you could always just stay hungry.
How can I possibly sell art and “non necessities” during this time of great crisis? I try to remember that just as the world needs doctors and nurses and electricians and plumbers and farmers we need art.
Marketing in a Broken World
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?
“The factor that I am most grateful for about Cook Club is actually that I have stopped putting pressure on myself or others to create for the sake of consistency. That’s what has been great about publishing indie; I know I can make art as a hobby when I feel most capable and inspired.”
Recipes to Hold Dear in Your Hand
this week, if you have time to do one extra thing, I suggest connecting with someone in a way that counts. It doesn’t have to be big, or take a lot of time.
Cat Ferguson • https://sf.gazetteer.co/those-weird-spam-texts-are...
The best spokesperson for any endeavor is not the one who has the most polish, the longest tenure, or the "right" credentials. It’s the person who holds the secret knowledge upon which the enterprise is built, the person who can not only describe the idea but, in the face of inevitable opposition, fight for it and win.