3. Establish an Online Presence: Get your work out there through blogs, social media, and/or a personal website. Create good work and make sure you have a place where people can find you.
2. Share Your Process: Don't just show the end product. Take your audience behind the scenes. Document your work process, failures, and successes. Transparency builds trust and connection.
This meme is revealing, both in its brilliance and its shortcomings.
I'll start with the brilliance. Social media algorithms have a deeper and more intimate understanding of their users than most of their best friends do. They know our quirks, our desires, our lusts, and our aspirations. They know things about us that we don't even know about ourselves. So yes, they disturb us by showing us our own shadow.
What about the shortcomings? The algorithms cater to our short-term desires instead of our long-term ones. They suck us in with political dramas, viral videos, and all kinds of porn. Like a box of Pringles, these things are irresistible in the moment, but leave us feeling regretful after the fact. So yes, like junk food, social media can ruin lives by preying on our impulses.
But our information environment doesn't need to be polluted like this.
This begs the question: How would algorithms change if they prioritized our long-term desires?