Bram Spiero

Ex-VP → History student → hustling in public. Selling stuff. Embarrassing myself with AI. Newark.
🔗

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

There is no equilibrium.

When I get jittery, I'm usually doing too much.

The solution is to do less.

When I get bored, I'm usually doing too little.

The solution is to do more.

That's the cycle: add, subtract, add, subtract.

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

Sending a little in between letter love to my subscribers.

I love how slow the mail is. No instant satisfaction. No read message notification.

Just send something out into the wild and anticipate.

If you haven't already, you should join.

It would mean a lot to me.

🔗in 🧾

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

https://t.co/L23V0STBIK

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

The State of the Schmutz

As I wrote to a friend just now, Schmutz has been in the making for about a decade.

But the last two weeks have been the first intense push towards launch, and starting to grow this thing.

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

In the mean time, help a brother out, go check out the Schmutz landing page and subscribe. And if you don’t, tell me why. Some of the best feedback I’ve gotten this last week has been from people telling me why it’s not for them.

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

Schmutz is snail mail for the chronically online. 24 letters, one year, mailed to your house. Part accusation, part confession. The kick in the ass you need to start doing something about what you already know is wrong.

🔗

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

It's the first of the month, so this pile is going to the post office.

First of many.

If you're not in this pile, go to the link in my bio and sign up now.

Be in the pile in two weeks

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

You don't need another app to tell you to put your phone down.

You need a letter from someone who can't put his phone down either.

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

I had reached out to my English Lit prof about Schmutz.

Can't wait for him to see what my most significant creative project since I was in his class looks like.

He'd told me about a student journalist writing in the school paper on the same subject.

Launch is Friday.

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

Getting ready to stuff some envelopes.

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

These go everywhere I go now. Coffee shops, libraries, bulletin boards. If you see one, you were supposed to.

Link in bio.

You know you need this.

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

Asked two strangers at a storage unit if they spend too much time online. They said yes before I finished the sentence. Handed them a card. That's the whole marketing strategy.

[Bram Spiero @bramspiero]

Working on getting the first letter good to go.

I wrote to an old English lit professor of mine last week that this is the this is the most intense creative writing project I've done in a long time.

It's got my brain making yummy noises.