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Internet People: Issue 135

May 28, 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

🎧 Our audio-zine is here

International friends and audiobook lovers — we heard you. The Overthinker’s Guide to Getting Started is now available as a $17 Digital Bundle!

Here’s what you get:

💿 30-min audiobook read by the authors
📒 A cute little digital flipbook (so you can turn the pages!)
📱 A PDF e-book for your iPad/Kindle

The Overthinker’s Guide to Getting Started is a short, tactical playbook to help you stop spiraling and start creating — because your ideas deserve to see the light of day.

We wrote this no-fluff guide for perfectionists, procrastinators, and overthinkers who are tired of waiting for the perfect moment and ready to take action.

Buy for $17

🚨 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

Third-order thinking: how to build a life that can’t trap you by

Jenni Jang

The systems that organize your life are bigger than just Notion and GCal — they’re the foundation for all the behaviors and habits you have. But sometimes the system that once worked becomes the one that traps you… enter third-order thinking:

First-order thinking: “Do this, get that.”
Second-order thinking: “Do this, then that happens.”
Third-order thinking flips the question.
“What system am I building—and who am I becoming as a result?”

🎧 Listen

You’ve been hearing us talk about how much Substack has meant to the growth of our business and our personal brands. This episode How I Built This with the cofounders of Substack paints the picture of why the platform is a major disruptor for media, marketing, and tech, and the winding path it’s taken to get here.

🔮 Explore

Sportsball (IG account)

This account uses incredibly beautiful (hand drawn!) infographics to break down different aspects of sports.

If you’re one of those people who “doesn’t like sports” unless there’s a story (or drama!) that interests you, or if you’re a data dork, this account may pique your interest.

Here’s a very nerdy video about Super Bowl commercials:

_sportsball

A post shared by @_sportsball

🍿 Watch

How to Be An Artist Without Selling Your Soul on the Internet

This video podcast by Anna Howard is a must-watch for people wondering how tf to show up online in a way that feels good. She covers public vs. private narratives and the pressure put on women to exploit their personal lives (!!!)

We wrote The Overthinker’s Guide to Getting Started because your ideas (yes, yours!) deserve to see the light of day.

This zine is a warm, tactical little guide made by two overthinking ADHD creatives who get how hard it is to start, how good it feels when you finally do, and how to get the whole process moving in the right direction.

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 somewhere.

Get your copy for $22