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Failure Throwback: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
podcasts.apple.comThrowback episode of How To Fail With Elizabeth Day with Phoebe Waller-Bridge
We’re not talking enough about why freelance social media managers are everywhere. They grew by about a third in Europe since the pandemic. Tell me that growth is not also fuelled by millions of entrepreneurs realising that social media are addictive poison or simply meaningless, but their livelihoods still require a presence there so they gave
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Everyone wants community but no one wants to build it
Wish I read this sooner!
Instead of productivity, we focus on intentionality. It's not about how much you do, but about knowing why you're doing what you're doing, seeing dreams come to life, and having fun while you're doing it. Here are Intend's four principles for getting into flow and staying in touch with what matters to you:
choosing & doing, over organizing
aliveness,
I know Instagram has lots of faults. I’m not going to sit here and pretend it’s perfect. But what got lost in the “I’m Leaving Social Media” discourse is that shunning a platform like Instagram does not make the job of growing a following, a business, an email list, a publication any easier.
Same here. I don’t think consistency is the key. Most of what we read is just noise all around. It’s not only about Substack, it’s about every platform I’m in.
For me, the point isn’t ten thousand posts a day, but writing something that’s real about myself. And that’s exactly what I want to read from other people too,... See more
Simone Adelchinosubstack.comFree Faces
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Driven by overwhelm, I unlock my phone and scroll to the apps page. Mirror, mirror, help me find the answers to my many questions, even just one.
Before I’ve noticed I’m sucked into a vortex of consumption. Carefully guided by the hand of a software designer paid five times my wage, I check my emails. Clearly the thing I needed right now. I want
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But all of the arguments being made today against using generative AI to answer questions sound exactly like the arguments against citing web pages as sources in the 1990s. The argument then was basically “ Anyone can publish anything on the web, and even if a web page is accurate today, it can be changed at any time ” — which was true then and... See more