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Internet People: Issue 137

Jun 11, 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

📓 Grab your copy of our zine!

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

So if you’ve been telling yourself you’ll start your Substack (ahem), open that Etsy shop, or pick up that creative project “as soon as things calm down,” consider this your gentle nudge.

You don’t have to be ready. You just have to brave enough to start.

Order a printed copy for $22
Prefer audio & ebook? Grab the Digital Bundle for $17

Here’s an excerpt you can read for free 👇

How to stop overthinking and start creating what you want

Internet People, Anna Seirian, and MJ Mayes

Jun 10

How to stop overthinking and start creating what you want

This post is an excerpt from our zine, The Overthinker’s Guide to Getting Started — a short, tactical playbook for creative people who are tired of waiting for the right time.

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🚨 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

📚 Read

A guide to taking your creative enthusiasm seriously by

Gabriella Rosie ★

If you’re tired of spiraling about your ideas and wish you could just pick up your tools and get to work, you may be missing a key ingredient: creative enthusiasm!

🎧 Listen

This playlist is years and years in the making — a roundup of every song MJ has ever played during the first 5 minutes of a coworking session!

These tracks are really mostly instrumental (non-distracting vocals only) and perfect for a couple hours of deep work.

🔮 Explore

Future Library Project

This project is a public artwork that aims to collect original work by popular writers every year from 2014 to 2114. The coolest part: none of the work will be printed until 2114, after we’re all long gone!!!!