Seth Werkheiser
@sethwxyz
I write the Social Media Escape Club newsletter. I love helping creative people escape algorithms. I also enjoy running, taking photos, and my cat Blue.
Seth Werkheiser
socialmediaescapeclub.substack.com
Overthrowing Our Tech Overlords | NOEMA
First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini - Starlink Hardware
- Now to a related topic: why are Zoom calls draining? Or better yet, why aren’t Zoom calls more entertaining? Forget the eye contact. I think it’s because people just don’t look as good. You’re looking humans from a very unnatural angle. They’re badly lit. It’s not a fun movie. Your mind is comparing it to reality and it’s far less engaging.
from Communication in World 2.0 by Daniel Gross
Behind the scenes with The Guardian creative team making all its election artwork by hand
- A degree of relaxation is necessary to have good ideas because one doesn't have them so much as receive them—and one cannot receive anything with clenched fists.
- Engagement is the new uniques. The traffic era of publishing has ended. Nobody brags about their ComScore uniques anymore; engagement is the new North Star.
Email is so much better than a phone call for at least one reason: a written record.
from Frictionless Freelancing by Aaron Mahnke
