I’m a minimalist and eat mostly organic. I’ve really not cared too much about numbers online. Unfortunately those that rely on making their living being an online creator needs the numbers and I get that.
You have a rebellious streak. I do too. Unfortunately signing up for online writing marries someone to numbers. Lately all my numbers are going down. My Notes just disappear. Now I can see stats on them. But this is just one place. One thing.
IMHO, there's too much of just about everything, and I attribute that to the media, especially online engagement. My feeble human brain can't process what dumps into my inbox daily or my phone notifications. I'm a fast reader, but no way in hell can I read what comes my way AND write an intelligent comment for everything I do read. This information overload isn't stopping, so it's up to me to set the limits. However, I'm a greedy reader, and I have trouble disregarding those emails that alert me to yet another post. This "addiction" has had some serious consequences, so I wrote about it. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/writers-brain-catnip-c-lee-mckenzie/
Thanks for taking the time for this great comment on the subject. Yes, we must set limits. I just had to reconstitute my disengagement from the Note Scroll. It is terribly easy to get caught up in that. I think you can opt out of emails, maybe--depending on what kind of emails you are talking about. I like your story it is so appropriate. I have thought these exact things. I am writing a story based on anxiety that is partly about falling into this false world that writing platforms build in our minds. Something has to change but it must be what we do for ourselves, because the technology will never change to suit us.
I said it was inevitable. That might be wrong. I hope so. Yes it’s frustrating but thanks so much for reading and sharing your thoughts. I appreciate it.
I like to say if Nathaniel Hawthorne suddenly showed up in the 21st century, he would be overwhelmed by our media diets and ways of consuming them. So count yourself doing well if you barely keep up.
I also have noticed that for the masses, good enough but cheap trumps better but expensive almost every time. So the impulse toward quality gets trampled in the marketplace time and again. That’s why our furniture keeps breaking in ways they never did for our parents.
Yep. What you say is true about everything, like groceries. We are losing the ability to see the quality as well. Anything can be substituted for anything else.
I’m a minimalist and eat mostly organic. I’ve really not cared too much about numbers online. Unfortunately those that rely on making their living being an online creator needs the numbers and I get that.
I like to do the opposite of societal norms. 😁
You have a rebellious streak. I do too. Unfortunately signing up for online writing marries someone to numbers. Lately all my numbers are going down. My Notes just disappear. Now I can see stats on them. But this is just one place. One thing.
It’ll turn around. Ask for the best and then keep on keepin’ on my rebellious friend 🙌
IMHO, there's too much of just about everything, and I attribute that to the media, especially online engagement. My feeble human brain can't process what dumps into my inbox daily or my phone notifications. I'm a fast reader, but no way in hell can I read what comes my way AND write an intelligent comment for everything I do read. This information overload isn't stopping, so it's up to me to set the limits. However, I'm a greedy reader, and I have trouble disregarding those emails that alert me to yet another post. This "addiction" has had some serious consequences, so I wrote about it. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/writers-brain-catnip-c-lee-mckenzie/
Thanks for taking the time for this great comment on the subject. Yes, we must set limits. I just had to reconstitute my disengagement from the Note Scroll. It is terribly easy to get caught up in that. I think you can opt out of emails, maybe--depending on what kind of emails you are talking about. I like your story it is so appropriate. I have thought these exact things. I am writing a story based on anxiety that is partly about falling into this false world that writing platforms build in our minds. Something has to change but it must be what we do for ourselves, because the technology will never change to suit us.
It should always be quality over quantity, but it feels like it's the other way around these days. Frustrating, really.
I said it was inevitable. That might be wrong. I hope so. Yes it’s frustrating but thanks so much for reading and sharing your thoughts. I appreciate it.
I like to say if Nathaniel Hawthorne suddenly showed up in the 21st century, he would be overwhelmed by our media diets and ways of consuming them. So count yourself doing well if you barely keep up.
I also have noticed that for the masses, good enough but cheap trumps better but expensive almost every time. So the impulse toward quality gets trampled in the marketplace time and again. That’s why our furniture keeps breaking in ways they never did for our parents.
Yep. What you say is true about everything, like groceries. We are losing the ability to see the quality as well. Anything can be substituted for anything else.