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
socialmediaescape.club
Having a lot of social media followers or fame doesn’t guarantee it will sell. The singer Billie Eilish, despite her 97 million Instagram followers and 6 million Twitter followers, sold only 64,000 copies within eight months of publishing her book. The singer Justin Timberlake sold only 100,000 copies in the three years after he published his book.... See more
Elle Griffin • No One Buys Books
you, dear reader, like me and everyone else, evolved to seek out high-reward, low-energy-needed-to-acquire goods. This strategy worked well for hundreds of thousands of years. But now, in modern times of abundance, it is backfiring. Like so many things, what works, works—until it gets in your way.
🌾 Grow Through Generosity & Collaboration — with Chelsie Tamms of Lettering Works
youtube.comRecalling the specifics now, I can see more clearly exactly what’s being lost. Scrolling displaces observation, shuts out occasions for self-generated thought, silences out-of-the-blue invitations. Checking the phone reroutes the discomfort of blankness and emptiness. It stoppers authentic—often anxious—waiting.
Lia Purpura Published • The Ecology of Attention
An alternate obit
austinkleon.com
“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
I’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
... See morephone calls are more intimate - voice in ear is literally closer than a video screen - video reminds you that you are ~not~ in same space + visual distraction of seeing yourself
