You Don't Need To Document Everything

Influencers who dedicate every waking moment to documenting their identity have no idea who they actually are. Women who post pictures of their faces from every angle and in every possible lighting hate how they look. Families who capture every moment of their perfect lives get caught in scandal after scandal. And still we keep falling for it: the ... See more

But some people also say—when recounting old stories or explaining how something came to be, or describing what came before, or where they used to live—that they wish they had more pictures from those times. This seems more agreeable, what you should be recording are not the destination events of life so much as the much more mundane things: rainy ... See more

Don’t pressure yourself into making noise on the internet because you’re afraid of being forgotten.

Take your time & make something that will last longer than you will even if that means infrequent output.

Trends will get you there now, a unique and original feeling will last forever.

Trying to entice lurkers to participate more also completely misses the point: just because anybody can publish doesn't mean they should ; and more subtly, it doesn't mean they should want to. Before social media, it was a completely natural idea that someone could spend their entire life reading books without ever once entertaining the idea that t... See more