Picture this…
You’re lying in bed, chest tight like you’re being crushed by a metric ton of unread notifications, skin doing that weird clammy-not-clammy thing like you’ve just mainlined eight espressos and fat line of regret. Your phone’s throwing numbers at you faster than an accountant having a mental breakdown…
Likes. Comments. Shares. Retweets. Hearts. Stars. Little thumbs-up symbols that mean absolutely fucking nothing but somehow mean EVERYTHING. (Damn subtext-emoji-whatevers)
We’ve become social media slot machine addicts, pulling the content lever over and over, hoping for that sweet hit of validation. It’s like running through sewers barefoot while checking your Instagram analytics. Painful, pointless, and probably giving you diseases science hasn’t named yet.
And as much as I love the allure of social media platforms. My main game for 2025 is to get people into my own little world.
Which is this here list you’re on and/or the group I run on Facebook
I’ve always been an email guy though and that’s why I try and convert everyone with a creative bone to my wicked writer-ly ways…
Why?
Email is honest. No algorithms playing emotional puppet master, no fake engagement from bot farms and no squirrels monitoring my social media activity (okay, maybe some squirrels)
Email is intimate. Just me, you, and whatever latte inspired anarchy I’m spewing that day. There’s no performance arts for the algorithm gods and no desperate attempts to game the system.
Most importantly. Email is mine.
No platform can take it away, no terms of service changes can nuke my audience cause I back it up often (I learnt that the hard way) and no A.I. overlord is deciding who sees what.
So here I am, showing up in your inbox daily like a pal and because quality beats quantity like coffee beats sleep.
Stephen Walker
P.S. Yes, I wrote this without pants while ignoring all my social media notifications and incoming message pings.
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Stephen Walker
Unit 146317
PO Box 7169
Poole
BH15 9EL
United Kingdom