Comic strips on Substack and our collective disdain of Apple Mail

Internet People: Issue 132

Internet People

Anna Seirian

, and

MJ Mayes

May 07, 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 completed 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.

Here’s our brutally honest review of our experience:

👉 You can also listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts

✍️ We’re spilling our Substack secrets!

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

Primal Intelligence by

Zoe Scaman

A spirited defense of intuition in a data-driven world:

We're witnessing a recalibration of how humans navigate complexity. After drowning in data and still making spectacularly bad collective decisions, we've rediscovered that intuition deserves more than tokenistic respect.

🎧 Listen

Running a profitable business is often much more complex than it seems. And talking transparently about the financial ups and downs of that process? Even more rare.

We loved this very open and honest conversation from

Xanthe Appleyard

and her husband and business partner Frank about how they’ve navigated the last 7 years as business owners.

🔮 Explore

How to nurture your imagination by

Kika MacFarlane

This vertical comic strip is a Substack format is one we haven’t seen before! If you’ve been interested in joining the platform as an escape from the short-form apps we’re all tired of, but you don’t necessarily consider yourself to be a writer, Kika’s account may inspire you to rethink what a Substack post is “allowed” to be.

🍿 Watch

Relaxing Jazz Music Apartment in Forest Ambiance Video

We love streaming nice chill vibe videos in the background while we work, because you should never underestimate how much the ~overall vibe~ of your surroundings matter!

Pro tip: Put the video on mute and play your favorite music instead.