The Manifesto

I don’t want the world in my pocket. I don’t want access to everything on my phone.

Podcasts are amazing. Social media is here to stay but that doesn’t mean anyone of us have to personally stay. When you make it work for you, great. I feel better when I spend less time on Twitter. I feel good when I offer up experiences or content that brings people off of social media.

Social media makes me feel seen, celebrated, popular, funny. I prefer almost every other path to those feelings over the social media path. Take the paths of making music, of writing, of connecting. Since I’ve started this here blog some really cool people have come up to talk to me about reading it. That feels better. That feels more rewarding

I feel even better when events I present get people out of their house, with people they haven’t met before. People will remember a show, a trip, a trivia competition in the daytime.

Today Facebook laid off 13% of their employees. This is bad news for those people who are probably not all universally rich. It sucks for people to lose their jobs. But I hope those talented people go find work that might be better for the universe. Facebook shouldn’t be one of the biggest companies on earth. There needs to be more great experiences aided by social media but not arriving within social media.

Magazines are a great way to understand the world. They are more timely than books, less immediate than newspaper websites. You get some distillation.

Exercise is excellent. Getting to lift weights, exhausting your body, experiencing challenges, growing.

Spending time with your family and being happy with your job are important. Believing that is all you have time for is family and work is wrong. There’s time to volunteer, to spend time with friends, to serve your community. You should make the world a better place through your efforts.

Most people want to hang out. If you ask a couple people to hang out someone will say yes. Someone wants to hang out with you.