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
Artificial intelligence and Hooray, internet
So it is with great regret that I announce that the next person to talk about rolling out AI is going to receive a complimentary chiropractic adjustment in the style of Dr. Bourne, i.e, I am going to fucking break your neck. I am truly, deeply, sorry.
I often think of the Noah Smith quote: “Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”
Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
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The internet and numbers and bots cannot and will not translate to real tangible communities. We get carried away by the fog that is the internet and its illusions, forgetting that there exists a physical, tangible reality, a reality that we must engage with.
SHIMIZU Akira via https://open.substack.com/pub/hige/p/300
find an offline way to engage with your community through events, conferences, local meetups, and other non-social media engagements because--despite how connected we are--word of mouth/personal referral is still the best way to get clients in any service industry.
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“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
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