Could I interest you in everything all of the time? / A little bit of everything all of the time?

And so the internet’s latest shining promise of creative autonomy denatures into another burnout-inducing hamster-wheel game of keep up, as Gimlet executive Reyhan Harmanci noted recently.

Words are crucial, therefore changing the lexicon was the first step. I stopped considering the web as a place where to find an audience . I quit using the word users , switching to people instead and rewrote my pages to reflect my true self. Eradicating the marketing jargon was also paramount. I don’t produce content , I write and record sounds an... See more

In recent years, nearly every part of the contemporary human experience, from work to sex to church to sin, has been remoted and abstracted for our convenience.

But now: Tech, phones, and social media create what David calls an “ever-ending now” (99%+ of what people consume is stuff produced in the last 24 hours)