Phetasy News - Just Happy To Be Here
Phetasy News - Just Happy To Be Here
Dumpster Fire 105 - Game of Chodes, Katherine Dee Needs To Log Off, Factory Settings 15 - Self-Disclosure, Politically Homeless - Yet To Find My Tribe, In Defense of Paranoia & Merch
Greetings from the Phetaverse!
At the beginning of the year I randomly decided to start Write Club in order to hold myself accountable to writing every single day. The response has been incredible and there is now a solid core of people who are taking part in this exercise—a community invested in supporting one another.
One of core reasons for why I do anything is to connect to people and through Write Club I’m learning so much about my audience. Their hopes and dreams and fears. Their stories. One of the coolest prompts was to tell your life story in five minutes. I have such a diverse, interesting audience who have lived all over the world and I value their perspective so much. Some of the life stories sound like scripts for movies—it’s a reminder of how much we can pack into a life.
It’s really beautiful that when you open yourself and feel safe to be vulnerable, people will respond in kind. On Factory Settings this week Jeren and I explored this dynamic in our conversation about self-disclosure. How much should one share? When is it oversharing? When is it a fear of being seen? How does the media play into our desire to share with the world? We don’t necessarily have answers, but I think it’s helpful to have the conversation as many of us try to navigate walking that line.
We live in a time when the boundaries between online and off are eroding, and for generations younger than me, they never existed. My guest on Walk-Ins Welcome, Katherine Dee, talks about growing up online, what she’s learned being an internet historian and she basically made me realize that even though I’m an apathetic member of Gen X—I may as well be a Boomer.
It’s been another full week of content creation and I’m so proud of the work we are doing. Even though sometimes it feels like every algorithm online is conspiring against us, I’m just happy to be here. I received a tragic reminder this week of how precious life is. How we don’t know how much time we have. How important it is to stay connected to our loved ones, to each other, to life. It can all be gone in a blink.
Thumbnail artwork by Lara Cullen.
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