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
To quote Derek Sivers, "If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs."
The internet of today is a battleground. The idealism of the ’90s web is gone. The web 2.0 utopia — where we all lived in rounded filter bubbles of happiness — ended with the 2016 Presidential election when we learned that the tools we thought were only life-giving could be weaponized too. The public and semi-public spaces we created to develop our... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
There is an online culture that thinks nothing of submitting screenshots, notes, videos, and photos with calls for collective judgement. When it became desirable and permissible to transform our own lives into content, it didn’t take long before a sense of entitlement emerged that extended that transformation to people we know and to strangers.
“You absolutely do not have to be online. Do you know how many people still thrive in the real world? I speak to so many authors and artists who make so many more sales in the real world.”
Amie McNee
https://amiemcnee.substack.com/p/i-wanted-to-be-a-writer-not-a-content
“The factor that I am most grateful for about Cook Club is actually that I have stopped putting pressure on myself or others to create for the sake of consistency. That’s what has been great about publishing indie; I know I can make art as a hobby when I feel most capable and inspired.”
Recipes to Hold Dear in Your Hand
tech does not—and will not—respect lessons in power imbalances that others learned the hard way over the past two decades.
the thing is, as an adult, you get to make your own cool. you get to choose your own friends, live your own life. and let me tell you, in my life, where i make the rules, i am the coolest cat around.
being passionate about your hobbies is cool. asking good questions is cool. reading books is cool. taking notes is cool.
thinking of projects and then... See more
being passionate about your hobbies is cool. asking good questions is cool. reading books is cool. taking notes is cool.
thinking of projects and then... See more