web as performance
how social media rewires our brains for performance/audience/vanity, not connection
andrea and
web as performance
"when the underlying message behind a photo isn’t just “I’m still alive and I want you to pay attention to me right now please,” but “this thing I’m sharing is making me feel really alive, and I’m excited to share it with you because I think it’s worth your attention.” (Nozlee Samadzadeh)
sharing the work starts to be more important than the work itself
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how can i feel free to tinker with my website without feeling like it's supposed to be my main public-facing thing and should therefore contain all the proper public-facing things and be well structured and well maintained and not in a constant state of half-brokenness?
katherine (@kayserifserif@sunny.garden)
A lot more people would start a YouTube channel if view counts weren’t visible
Ryan Hoovertwitter.comI’ve heard we’re all comprised of two selves: the experiencing self and the narrating self. The experiencing self submits always to our circumstances—it feels, needs, desires. The narrating self, meanwhile, is removed—it reflects, rearranges, regales. These modes of being may directly concern a way of living, like being present versus being... See more
Audience Capture
sari and • 10 cards
the metrics, outward success, markers of “making it”, numbers, likes, popularity, visibility, praise or criticism or being ignored, awards, highlights, or trajectory that might come from what we make don’t matter much if we aren’t enjoying the process of making what we make.
How to Fall in Love With a System: Coziness as a Catalyst for Participatory Agency
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