Seth Werkheiser

Ask it about music, and it can write you lyrics in the style of whoever you’d like. But it’s never listened to a great song, never heard one right when it needed to be heard.

Amelia asked me what I am orienting to in my practice and everything in my body said I was turning toward other things, none of it included Instagram. And saying out loud - I don’t feel good there is what sparked my exit.

Almost everything that is meaningful, beautiful, life-affirming, empowering, transformational, true—it can’t be reached by shortcuts. But what we can do is make the longcuts walkable, put out footbridges and stairs, and a table where the ocean comes into view.

no one is thinking about you. No one is as hyper-fixated and obsessed with the smallest details of every piece of my work as I am, and that feels sort of freeing.

To feel sexy, we need risk and spontaneity. Our phones kill both.

But the informational value of the web has been nearly destroyed. Fake News isn’t even the biggest problem. It’s the digital ecosystem’s insistence on stifling curiosity by prioritizing ANSWERS over questions.

Most impactfully, the web has been systematically re-engineered to hinder discovery in order to drive people as quickly as possible to... See more

I noticed that one of my scheduled tweets had gone viral.

I thought it's quite telling that I hadn't noticed this in any way otherwise.