Seth Werkheiser
@sethwxyz
I help creative people quit social media, promote their work in sustainable ways, and rethink how a website and newsletter can work together.
Seth Werkheiser
@sethwxyz
I help creative people quit social media, promote their work in sustainable ways, and rethink how a website and newsletter can work together.
Your contradictions are an asset. You’re a lover of classical English architecture and you’re also a dirty little punk—expressing both at the same time is more interesting than sharing just cute pictures of English gardens or just wild trashy stuff. The more you incorporate everything that you love and that comes easily for you, your interests,
... See moreI’m not looking for a job. I’m not waiting to be hired. I’m not leaving it to luck.
I’m making the connections. I’m connecting the dots.
I am actively and intentionally creating my calling: a career I never want to retire from, and a life I don’t need a vacation from.
This is the work: building Makeist into something that’s not just a business, but a
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Photography and long-term thinking
“It takes at least six years for a photograph to start getting interesting again after the day it was taken. It’s the curve of photographic interestingness.” Noah Kalina
“If you can replace coders with AI, who cant you replace with AI? Firing coders is an ad for AI”
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI by Cory Doctorow
All you have to do is just be 5% better than everyone else who’s really bad at it. You don’t have to get everything perfect… you just have to be a little bit better so you can survive the war of attrition.

“When you serve other people, you give them something to look forward to. You might help them put down what’s heavy, even if just for a few hours. His line that stayed with me: “We have an opportunity, maybe even a responsibility, to create a little bit of magic in a world that needs more magic.” The assignment isn’t grandiosity, it’s care.”
Will
... See more“I’ve never believed in business plans, because business plans are detached from reality. They don’t account for the people who appear as if out of nowhere, offering help and solidarity. They don’t account for the universe deciding to give you an invisible boost by handing out random gifts, like the telephone number of someone who is particularly
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Hooray, internet and Social Media Escape Club
BRING BACK BLOGS, a Tweet from Chuck Wendig from 2020