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
“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
Simon Sarris • On the Usefulness of Photography
SHIMIZU Akira via https://open.substack.com/pub/hige/p/300
this week, if you have time to do one extra thing, I suggest connecting with someone in a way that counts. It doesn’t have to be big, or take a lot of time.
Cat Ferguson • https://sf.gazetteer.co/those-weird-spam-texts-are...
phone 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
My latest column at The New Yorker is about the revenge of homepages: Why we're turning toward individual websites as the platform era of the internet continues to disintegrate.
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a... See more
I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a... See more
lately, the most difficult part of the day to be offline, the evening, has become my most cherished time to be offline, away from the noise of the internet and into the dark quiet of the night
Unplugged evenings
There are those who believe the social web is reaching its terminal point. I hope they’re right. Platform after platform was designed to make it easier and more addictive for us to share content with one another so the corporations behind them could sell ever more of our attention and data. In different ways, most of these platforms are now in
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