Forget about your Instagram and move to Substack already
Internet People: Issue 140
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
🚨 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!
📙 Substack School for Creative Overthinkers is here!
We see you lurking in other people’s comment sections. Telling your friends, “I think I’m gonna start a Substack…” while secretly waiting for the clouds to part and your perfect niche to arrive via divine lightning bolt.
Today, that changes. Today, you make the move to take your creative dreams a reality.
🎉 Substack School for Creative Overthinkers is officially open 🎉
Substack School is an audio class that you can listen to like a podcast. It will help you finally get out of your head and start your damn newsletter — without spiraling about your niche, brand, or color scheme.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
Brand your Substack in a way that feels like you (all of you!)
Write consistently (even when you’re busy)
Grow your list without playing the algorithm game
Actually enjoy writing again (yes, really)
This is for you if you’re:
Multi-passionate and allergic to being pinned down
Getting stuck on tiny details because of perfectionism
Full of things to say but scared to be seen
You don’t need a logo or a content calendar. You don’t even need to know where it’s all going yet! You just need to start very small — and we’ll teach you how.
Substack School for Creative Overthinkers is $89.
Self-paced. One-time payment. Lifetime access. And built for brains like yours.
📚 Read
You don’t need a niche — you need a newsletter by
If you’re nostalgic for the days of no-fucks-given, online creative expression that MySpace, Xanga, and Tumblr granted us… do you seriously not have a Substack yet?
This article gives you 9 reasons to start one, especially if you’re allergic to the idea of boxing yourself in with a niche.
🎧 Listen
We’re baaaaack! If you’ve missed the Internet People podcast, we’re back on the feed with a new 4-part series: Substack 101
In episode 1, we dive into WTF Substack even is, how it’s different from other newsletter platforms, and why you (as a creative weirdo who’s constantly disgruntled by IG) should take advantage of it 👀
🔮 Explore
In this technical guide, Anna breaks down the bare minimum steps to get your author bio and newsletter set up!
🍿 Watch
Substack’s interface is notoriously cluttered, kind of confusing, and overwhelms users with a trillion settings — here’s the absolute bare minimum guide to getting your profile and publication set up enough to start posting!
Hard-hitting questions to stretch ur brain (and start weirder conversations)
We asked this question to our beloved Coworking Club last week — here’s what they said:
Want to voice your opinion on next week’s poll?
You’re invited to the free 1-hour coworking session today at 11am PT / 2pm ET — hope to see you there!
Because sometimes, you just need to ~think with your eyes~ to spark your next idea.
ttyl :)
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Happening at Internet People
🎧 New audio class! Substack School for Creative Overthinkers
️👯♀️ Join the Coworking Club — first 3 sessions free with code FOCUS
🪶 90-min Writing Club session every Monday and Saturday!
🎙️ Listen to our podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
📓 Buy our zine, The Overthinker’s Guide to Getting Started
Omg SO excited for this Substack class!!!
I’m on podcast 10, week like 15? of the Artist’s Way. Life got crazy… but about week 3 I DID start a Substack because I wanted to get back blogging. I’m loving it. I have a question for the pod. Some people have their name and then their blog name under that in Notes. How do we do that??!