April 2024
Gen-X :: Social Extraction
It’s been about a week since I deleted Twitter/X from my phone.
It’s incredible to me how doing so shifted my focus from drama posts that hit me rapid fire (all of which I had zero control to change in any meaningful way), back to creative pursuits. How shortly after deleting the app I found my mind returning to the contemplative state needed to create.
Social media is a powerful tool for promoting – I get it – but it has to be kept on a tight leash with your engagement being strictly limited.
I’m lucky to be Gen-X, where I can remember growing up happy without these devices, and still posses the fortitude to extract myself from them. If I were born ten years later it might have been near-impossible, and may have found myself believing everything posted bares any relation to reality.
Dipped Out
Every now and then you gotta bail on social media. It presents the world as the most hellish place, and the constant clout chasing, selling, scamming, grifting is repelling.
I read Mark Millar’s Reborn and enjoyed it. The exposition shoe-horned into the dialogue took me out of the moment from time to time, but overall it ended strong and I was moved.
It’s after you’ve done anything other than social media that you realize what a tragic waste of time it is, and how much further along we’d be if we stayed off of it.
I would really like someone to invent another way to find and cultivate a readership.
On Top of It
I’ve found a new Project Management app (boring topic, but essential for us creatives who run a business), called Ora.
The free version is tremendous, and in the future, when I bring on other artists/inkers/colorists/letterers, etc. into the production process, this app will help me keep these slackers in line! Now there is no excuse; it works on every platform and browser out there.
So the whip is coming out – now to figure out how to use it on myself…