Childlike wonder, bad UX, and chain-smoking podcasts

Internet People: Issue 133

May 14, 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

In case you missed it: We’ve officially completely our 12-week Bare Minimum Artist’s Way — our ADHD-friendly take on Julia Cameron’s classic.

Shoutout to everyone who followed along with us and found us through this project! We’re so happy you’re here, and we can’t wait to see what happens for you as you go through the 12 weeks.

We put our brutally honest review on YouTube!

👉 You can also listen to the episode on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

✍️ We’re making a Substack class!

Our business (and relationship to content creation!) massively changed when we decided to migrate everything from Beehiiv to Substack.

We’ve gained over 12k subscribers in five months across four accounts — the

Writing Club

newsletter gaining 6k alone!

We’re scheming up a podcast series and class to help you take advantage of the magic of this platform, so if you have any questions you definitely want answered, feel free to leave a comment or reply directly to this email!

🚨 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

You’ve got big dreams and an even bigger overthinking problem.

Trust, we get it. We’ve spent years buffering on amazing ideas that never saw the light of day. We also found a way through all the overthinking, self doubt, perfectionism, and executive dysfunction that would have kept us stuck — and we’re spilling our knowledge in this zine.

The zine has 10 essays to address not just your overthinking but your procrastination, overcoming the cringe of putting yourself out there, and tactical strategies to help you stop spiraling and start creating.

If you’re ready to stop waiting for the right time, grab the Overthinker’s Guide today!

Get your copy for $22

📚 Read

Being Cringe and Reclaiming Child-Like Wonder by

Ashantéa

What’s the alternative? Missed opportunities. And a life spent second-guessing every impulse to speak or share? A feed of watered-down ideas and acceptable aesthetics? A self constructed entirely through avoidance?
I’d rather be fully present. Even if it means someone out there is quietly cringing on my behalf.

🎧 Listen

We have a longstanding joke about our “shared brain cell” … but what exactly made us start listening to The Telepathy Tapes on exactly the same day without talking to each other about it?? 😳

If you haven’t heard of it yet, the series explores the extraordinary communicative abilities of some non-speaking Autistic people.

If you want to just hear what it’s about, the producer did a great interview on Rich Roll’s podcast (there are a few spoilers, be warned!)

We found the series to be thoughtful, nuanced, and informative — has anyone else listened to it yet?

🔮 Explore

These hilariously horrible UX designs by Soren Iverson

Whether you’re a user experience nerd or just want a 10/10 account to follow on Threads, this account is gold. Here are a few of our favorites:

🍿 Watch

My year of saying yes to everything

What happens when your dream job is feeling less DREAM and more JOB? Shonda Rhimes gets it. This is her TED Talk about her book The Year of Yes — which is a banger, btw, excellent on audio!