Control issues, digital wardrobes, and your favorite Internet crimes

Internet People: Issue 130

Internet People

Anna Seirian

, and

MJ Mayes

Apr 23, 2025

Welcome to Internet People 🌀 A weekly roundup of fresh ideas to fuel your creative process & help you navigate the mindf*ck of being a creative person in the digital age

🎨 Bare Minimum Artist’s Way

We’re nearing the end of our 12-week Bare Minimum Artist’s Way — our ADHD-friendly take on Julia Cameron’s classic. Why? Because half-assing it to the finish line beats quitting at week 3.

In this final chapter (!!!), we explore how our control issues keep us stuck as creatives. You could spend your whole life trying to think up brilliant ideas, but the real magic happens when we let the ideas simply come down through us.

In the podcast episode, we also touch on our unexpected (and serendipitous) move to Substack, and why trying to ~plan out~ your personal brand isn’t doing what you think it’s doing.

👉 Listen to the episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

👉 Read the article on Substack

🚨 Happening soon — free coworking session!

Our Coworking Club has a 1-hour session today at 11am PT / 2pm ET and you’re invited since you’re reading this email — we’d love to see you there!

👉 Here’s the Zoom link

The Overthinker’s Guide to Getting Started has landed 🥳

We spent 9 months working on a book proposal that our agents loved, but they told us we needed to grow the brand more before we talk publishing.

…then we got impatient and want you guys to be able to read it now!!! 😇

This baby is a short, tactical playbook to help you stop spiraling and start creating — because your ideas deserve to see the light of day.

The Overthinker’s Guide to Getting Started is a no-fluff guide for perfectionists, procrastinators, and overthinkers who are tired of waiting for the perfect moment and ready to take action.

It’s short, easy to read, and packed with practical strategies to help you get out of your head and start making real progress — we can’t wait for you guys to get your hands on it!!

Get your copy for $22

📚 Read

Patience is the ultimate competitive advantage by

Sari Azout

This is a very cool moodboard-style article about the benefits of prioritizing patience over speed — which can be a challenge for recovering girl bosses!!!

If you're feeling everyone around you is moving faster and achieving more while you're being left behind—take a breath. That narrative is bullshit.
The constant pressure to compress what takes decades of work into days is a mirage.

🎧 Listen

Why Going Offline Might Save Us

So many of the things we seek are on the other side of putting our damn phones down!!!!

In this episode of The Science of Happiness, Astrophysicist Adam Becker shares his perspective on what happens when we go from staring up the stars to down at our phones, and how it impacts our sense of connection to the world, other people, and ourselves.

🔮 Explore

Whering App

Whether you’re trying to wear more real clothes instead of your Adam Sandler WFH uniform or you just want to get better at shopping your closet instead of buying fast fashion, you’ll love this verrrrry ADHD-friendly app.

Anna just started using this casually, and the UX is so brilliant. You take pictures of the items in your wardrobe, the app removes the background, and then you can start assembling looks or let the app make recommendations based on your uploads!

🍿 Watch

Rashida Jones on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Amy Poehler’s new podcast is surprisingly good — not that we doubted her, but, you know how celeb podcasts go. Her interviews with Rashida Jones and Quinta Brunson are especially excellent and really great to put on while you do the dishes or tackle that mountain of laundry next to your bed.