NO MORE LIKES

“I do think that social media is largely a trap… for users and for brands,” says Seth Godin over at Link In Bio. “It’s purposely built to create insecurity and false proxies, metrics that get people to work for free to support the business model of the social media companies, as opposed to their own goals.”

Spending time and energy for “Likes” benefits the people who said “Likes” were valuable in the first place.

RE-SHARE YOUR OLD STUFF

Bands have been re-releasing albums for decades.

So yes, you should re-share that post you wrote 8 months ago.

Talk about your first show 20 years ago, the award you won 10 years ago, that feature you had 5 years ago.

Celebrate your year old music video with a quick interview with the director.

Celebrate the five year anniversary of your favorite song. Favorite gallery. Favorite photo.

Everything doesn’t need to be new new new. Most everyone has never seen any of your work.

Show it to them.

COMPUTERS ARE BORING

I’ve been reading Apple / Mac blogs since like 2003. Started with MacRumors, and of course found the almight Daring Fireball, and have been checking those at least once a day for over… 20 years.

But I think I’m done.

Everything now just wants to have some AI element, or an even thinner iPad… my new MacBook Pro M3 is fucking FANTASTIC. Such a great computer. I love it so much.

But I think I’m good. I just need a solid laptop and… that’s it.