Yesterday, for the first time in about a year, I logged into my social media accounts and started posting new artwork. Immediately I felt the digital Skinner boxes at work and found myself returning to check my notifications throughout the day with it often affecting my ability to concentrate. I was revulted at my own lack of self-control. This is what social media is designed to do of course but it still feels gross when it works on you.

I wanted to write up my immediate reaction here to remind myself not to get caught up in the cycle of posting again for any other reason than to promote the projects I've been working on. I don't have the time to get caught up in checking comments and messages across however many different websites. The notifications are meaningless. Just post an image, log out, and forget about it.

I'm happy to say working on my personal website has been very meditative. I like to think of this as my base of operations from which I carry out sorties against the broader internet. I blast my drawings indiscriminately into the crowded algorithms, not knowing who will be caught in the line of fire.

This was dumb, thanks for reading! If you catch me shitposting anywhere else but here, link this blog post to remind me I've become what I most feared.

Peace,

Logan