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All our events next week are FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!

◾ CO-WORK ESCAPE POD
Make a podcast, tune your guitars, clean your desktop, finish your taxes – together!
Talk about what you’re working on (or not), camera on or off, stay for the whole thing or not – this is our chill (free) corner on the internet.
Tuesday, March 31 from 12:00-2:00 PM EST: https://luma.com/y2n7ghry

◾ LIVE WITH MAX PETE VIA SUBTACK

“The tech dream is a nightmare… more people I talk to that are in this industry want to leave and do something else—like work at the coffee shop, work at Trader Joe’s—but don’t know how to do that or feel like they can’t.”

That’s a quote from our chat in August 2025, so make sure you tune in LIVE and see how much more disillusioned we are seven months later.
Wednesday, April 1 at 10am EST

◾ ESCAPE POD #113 W/ CECILIE MARIA NIELSEN AND NIKKI LERNER
​Both Cecilie Maria Nielsen and Nikki Lerner are deeply musical people who started their own choirs, and that act of gathering voices is what brings them together as our next special guests!
Thursday, April 2 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST: https://luma.com/tadh4hgz

We were right.

“Jury finds Meta and Google negligent in social media harms trial.”

“Meta must pay $375 million for violating New Mexico law in child exploitation case, jury rules.”

We knew something was off. We knew something didn’t feel right.

We talked about it, but most everyone around us kept justifying the platforms.

“If you’re not on social media, how will you find new clients?”

“How will I stay in touch with family?”

I’m not saying we need to delete our accounts today, but we need an exit plan.

Someone you know checked Facebook for the last time today. A hundred people you don’t know uninstalled Instagram. A family member will get locked out of their account this week.

Not everyone is tired of scrolling social media, of course. But someday in the future a lot of people you know will look back on this time and grieve for the hours lost, the attention we gave away to these hideous companies.

Today is a great day to delete a social media app from your phone.

Love this from Reconnect Stanford, on the importance of community:

One member of our community put it this way: being around others while trying to get off social media made what once felt impossible feel attainable. Without social media connecting them to thousands of acquaintances and mutuals, they could focus on the people who truly mattered.

Deleting an app or doing a “detox” is a start, but being a part of a community trying to attain the same thing is super helpful. Social media seeks to isolate us, so we need to intentionally do the opposite, getting back in touch with friends, hanging out, talking on the phone, making small talk.

◾ CO-WORK ESCAPE POD
Update your Notion setup, back up your photos, fix your website – come hang out!
Tuesday, March 24 from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST: https://luma.com/ypw1g1z7 

◾ FOCUS ESCAPE POD: 
BUILD AND HOST YOUR OWN LINK-IN-BIO PAGE IN 90 MINUTES
Wednesday, March 25 from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
Register here: https://luma.com/dheuyuxa

◾ ESCAPE POD #112 – Back to our normal time!
The prompt? “​Save money on gas, buy books!” What?!
Thursday, March 26 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST: (Members only, start your first month here)

As I wrote earlier, “folks who don’t use (social media) platforms anymore might not be able to see your hours of business, your location, or your contact info.”

This from merritt k., in the aptly titled, “Have a Fucking Website.”

“If you’re a hair salon, or a tattoo artist, or a restaurant, or whatever, please just have a fucking website where I can go and see your rates and hours. Not all of your potential clients are on these platforms, and I suspect that even many of the ones who are appreciate a simple, unadorned site that tells them what they need to know at a glance.”

I made this stripped down LinkTree clone for free, and it’s hosted for free.

Photographer Noah Kalina made a much prettier “Linktree clone” using Claude Code, and it’s hosted on Dreamhost, which (after their current special) renews at $10.99/month for the cheapest hosting plan (as of 3/18/2026).

A QR code points where you tell it to point.

You can have up to 10,000 email subscribers on Kit for free.

This isn’t hard, it’s just not as easy as social media.

But look what social media gets you:

• You can’t reach all your followers
• You can lose access for almost any reason
• They’re run by horrible people

If people are actively searching for you, or they’re in front of your store and scanning a QR code, don’t send them to platforms where you can’t reach them.