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ORBIT: “Some of them join me in zoom rooms and some over in Discord, but if digital is not their thing, we’re doing snail mail, long phone calls, and methods of platform-independent connection,” says Mel Mitchell-Jackson.

IGNITION: “Can I say your suggestion to start hosting zoom calls was a gamechanger over here? I now have a tiny group of people who are on a journey together and are making things happen. I know them and they know me and so much more can happen at that level. it’s like we’ve done intros already, lets get to work now,” from a former Email Guidance client (members get two free rounds with me). 

TRAJECTORY: “When I hear (my talk from The Moth), I wish I’d gotten it a minute or two tighter. But what is also there is me, the human being, doing something I was not fully prepared for (because there was no way to prepare except to do it),” Kato McNickle

SIGNALS: “I like how everyone talked without raising their virtual zoom hand and how nice and goofy and smart everyone was,” said our Escape Pod guest Erin Shetron.

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GOOD SUPPORT: “Community isn’t about content access or exclusive perks. It’s about shared accountability to a higher standard of work and life. It’s a commitment to significance through support.”

GOOD GROUP: “She and other students talked all the time about craving a break from their phones, which pulsed all day long with distractions. They debated giving them up, but doing so seemed inconvenient and isolating. Maybe the solution was to try it together.” (via Kottke)

GOOD ADVICE: “Go get an RSS reader app, stop being spoon-fed slop by algorithmic platforms, and start consuming content at your own pace.”

◾ ESCAPE POD #102 W/ ERIN SHETRON
Special guest Erin Shetron; creative advisor, editor, and “newsletter whisperer.” She writes the Frequent Criers Club newsletter, and she’ll be joining us to share her process, and dig into the gentle and genuinely helpful way she works with clients.
Thursday, Jan 15 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
REGISTER: https://luma.com/y2c0a3sm

◾ MINI ESCAPE POD Q&A #27
Small group Q&A with other like-minded folks. Limited to just three guests!
Friday, Jan 16 from 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM EST
REGISTER: MEMBERS ONLY (start your 30 day trial here)

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INTENTIONAL INTERNET: “I believe in primarily using the internet to enrich the outernet. I.e. leveraging digital tools and the distributive power of the internet to delight and connect people IRL,” says Danielle re: turning your Substack newsletter into a printable newspaper.

PLATFORM OVERLOAD: “You are on your own blog, your own corner of the web, powered by the platform you’re the CEO of, a blog that also serves content via RSS, the thing you’re building a tool for, and you’re telling people to follow the progress on fucking Twitter?” says Manuel Moreale (here) of the Ghost CEO and founder John O’Nolan telling people to follow along on Twitter (where he’s posted exactly zero times since the original post).

YOUR NEWSLETTER IS A DELIVERY TRUCK: “You can write on your own site and distribute via email, getting the permanence of a blog with the push distribution of a newsletter. The writing lives at your domain; the email is notification infrastructure,” says Joan Westenberg in The Case for Blogging in the Ruins.

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​February 14, 2026 at 12pm EST is BREAK UP WITH SOCIAL MEDIA DAY. We’ll gather on Zoom to delete at least one social media app from our phone.

​This is a group break up, together, in good company.

• ​Sign up if you want to get away from social media.
• Sign up even if you’ve already deleted the apps and/or accounts
• Sign up if you’re curious about escaping social media
• Sign up if you’ve re-installed the apps a dozen times

​We’ll come together, check in for 10 or so minutes, then we’ll delete a social media (or two).

​Stick around and we’ll share your experiences with social media with other people on their own journeys.

Like I’ve learned from Priya Parker, this isn’t about self-help, this is about group help. We shouldn’t have to try and figure this out ourself, in isolation. Let’s delete, and then we’ll figure it out.

I’d love to see people host their own BREAK UP WITH SOCIAL MEDIA DAY hang outs in their bedrooms or kitchens or studios and join in on Zoom. I’d love to open the call and see your face surrounded by all the other people you brought together into your space! (if I can help make this happen, let me know)

This isn’t the answer, but it’s a start.

Register for BREAK UP WITH SOCIAL MEDIA DAY here.

Our next Escape Pod special guest will be Erin Shetron; creative advisor, editor, and “newsletter whisperer.” She writes the Frequent Criers Club newsletter, and she’ll be joining us to share her process, and dig into the gentle and genuinely helpful way she works with clients. For more information and to register (for free), please click here.