"There is SO MUCH FREAKING CONTENT out there." Garrison Keillor was asked how we can encourage more people to write. He said we should encourage more people not to write : )
Thank you for this. It's so real, and I've been feeling it and thinking about it for a long time too. I distinctly remember an article on how choice creates unhappiness in NY Mag in the mid-aughts, which was more related to having too many restaurants, bars, entertainment options to choose from at any given moment living in NYC. But you've perfectly expressed how this has snowballed for all of us digitally. Thank you. I'm glad this is the Substack I *chose* to start my day with!
Ironically, I was at a book reading just last week and was telling the others in line how awesome your Substack is – and how it's one of the very few I actually read:)
I felt so relieved when it dawned on me that i don't have to read every newsletter that comes into my inbox and furthermore I can unsubscribe to the ones I never seem to get through.
The paradox of so much content choice is how fucking lonely it is to finish reading/listening to/watching something life changing only to find no one in your circle has watched it or heard of it. At least when we had three channels you could be guaranteed to find someone in the next 24 hours who would GAH!-RIGHT?!-SWOON right along with you. And, sure, some appointment television is trying to capture that by doing the retro once-a-week roll out, but they're almost always followed with instant thought pieces about every blessed thing in the episode. Maybe I'm a romantic, but I think content experienced well is content felt deeply. We lose the chance to feel when we're asked to think about it before we're done feeling about it. And with that, I'll pull my pants up to my chest and go yell at some kids to stay off my lawn...
My yoga teacher and I were just talking about this today -- how we have found it very liberating to unsubscribe from too many emails/too much content. But please keeps yours coming!
"There is SO MUCH FREAKING CONTENT out there." Garrison Keillor was asked how we can encourage more people to write. He said we should encourage more people not to write : )
Thank you for this. It's so real, and I've been feeling it and thinking about it for a long time too. I distinctly remember an article on how choice creates unhappiness in NY Mag in the mid-aughts, which was more related to having too many restaurants, bars, entertainment options to choose from at any given moment living in NYC. But you've perfectly expressed how this has snowballed for all of us digitally. Thank you. I'm glad this is the Substack I *chose* to start my day with!
Overwhelming. I never get close to caught up.
And then there’s the Barbra book! Omg … even lifting it wears me out but I love her - I just wish she was singing the 966 pages.
I know.. should have been off key....
My comment on THIS somehow went on a post about singing of key.....have you been listening to me when I did not know you were there??
Ironically, I was at a book reading just last week and was telling the others in line how awesome your Substack is – and how it's one of the very few I actually read:)
I felt so relieved when it dawned on me that i don't have to read every newsletter that comes into my inbox and furthermore I can unsubscribe to the ones I never seem to get through.
The paradox of so much content choice is how fucking lonely it is to finish reading/listening to/watching something life changing only to find no one in your circle has watched it or heard of it. At least when we had three channels you could be guaranteed to find someone in the next 24 hours who would GAH!-RIGHT?!-SWOON right along with you. And, sure, some appointment television is trying to capture that by doing the retro once-a-week roll out, but they're almost always followed with instant thought pieces about every blessed thing in the episode. Maybe I'm a romantic, but I think content experienced well is content felt deeply. We lose the chance to feel when we're asked to think about it before we're done feeling about it. And with that, I'll pull my pants up to my chest and go yell at some kids to stay off my lawn...
My yoga teacher and I were just talking about this today -- how we have found it very liberating to unsubscribe from too many emails/too much content. But please keeps yours coming!