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Cheeto Dust, Flirting with Real Life, and Using Social Media as a Bulletin Board
Internet People: Issue 104
Internet People
October 16, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
Welcome to the Internet People Newsletter, a weekly roundup of fresh ideas to fuel your creative process 🌀
This issue is dedicated to anyone with Cheeto dust on their fingers, people with ADHD wondering why it’s so hard to build habits, and cuties who want to connect with their silly, flirtatious energy again 🪁
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🗞️ Hot Off the Press
🎙️ Podcast
Habit formation with ADHD is… complicated? But fully possible!!! In this episode, Anna discusses:
📆 Why true, lasting changes happen on a random Tuesday afternoon, not on January 1
🔮 Why the idea of “Future You” is so difficult for ADHD people
⚒️ The most underrated way to build a new habit
📝 Blog
MJ is fed up with her (mostly unconscious) habit of relentlessly refreshing Instagram. This week on the blog, she experiments with the question, What if I treated social media like a community bulletin board?
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👀 Recs and Rabbit Holes
📚 Read
Underrated take: Being a screentime goblin affects your sensuality!! If you’re disconnected from your silliest, flirtatious, eros-coded energy, give this one a read. Her writing is gorgeous (a perfect match for the topic), so here’s a taste:
The kind of virile, salty life so many of us crave is incompatible with our sanded-down, stagnant, sanitized online existence. The chance encounter, the pregnant pause, the flirtatious touch, the generous laugh—these are the sexy, ephemeral moments of life. The scroll is endless. What’s sexy is always here and now, not somewhere, out there, forever.
🗺️ Explore
Playing with color on a cool website just never gets old! Here’s another one to add to your folder or cool digital color pickers.
🎧 Listen
This one is for the burned out/exhausted/overstimulated friends who need to lock in. We’ve said it before and we’ll never shut up about it: make yourself a vibe, put your phone away and set a timer for an hour. It’s weirdly motivating!
Set the mood with this lush ambiance video, then click play on this Green Noise Spotify playlist to double down on the forest fairy vibe 🌿
🍿 Watch
Something that can be challenging for ambitious softies who want to grow their business is figuring out ~precisely how~ to do so without being tethered to noisy platforms like IG and TikTok. We loved this Youtuber’s take on a calm, social media-free, marketing strategy.
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