Crescer sem as redes sociais

However, in the meantime, the new media strategy is AI-empowered creators as the face of the brand, with relatively few staff building out bundled product offerings. Email moves from the strategy to just another tool. The future is owning relationships with audiences—and serving as many of their media and software needs as possible.

With or without social media, I have things to say, wisdom to share, and plenty to teach! But how do I disentangle all that from the problems I see with the influencer-slash-content-creator business model?

I’m convinced that it’s going to become a straightforwardly high-status, elite play to renounce phones, social media, and many other aspects of digital culture. In a world of insane information abundance and always-on connection, reclaiming the stillness of your own mind will be akin to flying private.

If I’m right, we’ll see a growing divide

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Platforms like TikTok and Instagram are engines of distraction and cultural rot. They stand in front of the more difficult but more rewarding aspects of life: deep work, intimate connections with friends and loved ones, focused attention for hobbies with intrinsic rewards. By training users to crave constant novelty and the immediate approval of... See more

From 2007 to 2018, social media was centralizing in platforms like Facebook, YouTube or Medium. Now, people are going back to owning their own social media, and de- centralizing it through self-hosted blogs, podcasts, forums, etc.

How can we make the web more natural and human-first rather than computers or institutions? How do we wish to interact with the internet beyond "browsing?” How would we shape the internet and our container for inhabiting it (currently, our browsers) if they were our neighborhoods and homes?