Social Media Escape Club

I’m happy I asked you to send questions. It led to conversations with readers I had never heard from before.

There are no tips, tools, tricks— no gimmicks— No amount of money, lack of it thereof that will save you from the thing that keeps you running back to the noise, to the avatars— and other drugs. It is You

To feel sexy, we need risk and spontaneity. Our phones kill both.

So with all the caveats —we’re goofs, you shouldn’t trust companies, no one knows what the future holds, I am a literally insane person— I don’t expect this video work to “change Substack” in any deep way.

Creator platforms algorithmically incentivize us to create at the pace Wall Street and the market demand. This is why we’re pushed to create more and more. Not because our audiences are asking for it. Not because the world needs more of what we have to say. Because we as artists, the platforms, and their investors desire, to varying degrees,... See more