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.
@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.
The best spokesperson for any endeavor is not the one who has the most polish, the longest tenure, or the "right" credentials. It’s the person who holds the secret knowledge upon which the enterprise is built, the person who can not only describe the idea but, in the face of inevitable opposition, fight for it and win.
“You absolutely do not have to be online. Do you know how many people still thrive in the real world? I speak to so many authors and artists who make so many more sales in the real world.”
Amie McNee
https://amiemcnee.substack.com/p/i-wanted-to-be-a-writer-not-a-content
“Mari got me to pull the plug on my Sp*tify subscription recently and it has been liberating to not see the statistics and industry-imposed/applied rankings next to the names of the artists i listen to. staying away from social media has also been a great relief for similar feelings of inadequacy, doubt, and envy.”
Claire Rousay
... See more“Using SM too often leaves my mind feeling like I have a hundred open browser windows, or a gang of CPU sapping programs running in the background, to really push it over the edge here with the computer metaphors.”
Gen Z Broke The Marketing Funnel
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/consumers/gen-z-broke-the-marketing-funnel
“If you only exist in the minds of your consumers as an Instagram handle, you haven’t built a brand. You’ve built an account,” Jamie R Cox
https://brandburnout.substack.com/p/am-i-the-girl-who-deleted-instagram
‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen
If you are stuck in a mall food court with only bad food, and you are hungry, you could always just stay hungry.
Don't be brilliant. Be curious. Questions beget questions. Ideas beget ideas.
From Jay Acunzo’s newsletter ‘Better ideas in less time’