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.
“The villain here is not necessarily the internet, or even the idea of social media,” she writes. “It is the invasive logic of commercial social media, and its financial incentive to keep us in a profitable state of anxiety, envy, and distraction.” The business model of platforms like this — which rely on advertising and clicks and “engagement”
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2020-12-30
Screenshotting as one of the essential underrated tools of the digital age - the equivalent of inventing cameras for the physical world, so we can take “pictures” of everything happening around us in the digital realm, and share + discuss it
“If you want to master and deeply understand the core fundamentals of a task you may, paradoxically, need to start by casting a very wide net. By trying many different things, you can get a sense of what comes more easily to you and set yourself up for success. It is much easier to focus on something that's working than struggle along with a bad
... 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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