Laura opens with a Prince lyric that accidentally nailed how she's been feeling about social media all week. The episode works through what happens when the metrics flatline after an initial spike, the mind game she engineered to keep herself posting, and why she's starting to be open to the possibility that social media isn't how this business grows. Also: a Useful Thinking episode that beat her ass all week, and why the resistance was the sign she needed.
What You'll Learn
- The new metric she's using to measure whether a post was worth making, and why it has nothing to do with anyone else
- Why an initial spike in engagement followed by silence sends her straight to "you're boring people"
- The Broadway curtain metaphor that accidentally led her into quantum physics
- How she's learning to read her own resistance as a biological signal rather than a stop sign
From / To Pattern Shift
From measuring success by whether anyone engages with the work → to measuring it by whether creating it increased or drained her own energy.
Connect with Laura:
- Instagram: @think.laura
- Substack: https://thinklaura.substack.com/
- Pod: Useful Thinking
- Hub: thinklaura.com