I'm writing this somewhere over the Pacific, running on three hours' sleep and a small bag of plane pretzels, having left Costa Rica at an hour that doesn't really count as morning or night.
But I wanted to talk about authenticity online, because of two back to back articles I recently read from writers I follow on Substack.
The first was a beautifully written piece by Scott Stillman about uncovering who we truly are after years of self improvement, conformity, and performance (and proudly loving that version.)
The second was by Tim Denning who’s a bit abrupt for my tastes, but he has a keen mind & I enjoy a lot of his theories and examples.
He wrote about how we’re entering the ‘authenticity era’ online, & how if you want to win the internet stop performing (there’s that word again) and be more you!
(It’s all a bit silly really isn’t it - who else am I going to be?)
But I found it interesting that one of …
