Is Social Media Draining Your Creativity?
If so, take a break and read this instead
My fascination with Jaron Lanier started with a TED talk. Stumbling into his work is like discovering a treasure chest in your backyard. You wonder how you never knew about it and why no one else seems to. The reason for this is simple. Jaron Lanier doesn’t have any social media accounts and never has.
In this day and age, not having a social media presence of some sort can almost render you invisible to the rest of the world. Lanier only shows up on Google searches because of his words. Either through the books he’s written, interviews, or talks he’s given. And his words are truly spellbinding.
A large man, with dreadlocks down past his waist, he has an imposing physical presence. Still, his demeanour is almost dreamy, starry-eyed with possibilities of futures where creativity is upheld as the real virtue of humankind. You see, Jaron Lanier is the father of Virtual Reality, and from a very young age, he’s been a visionary for another kind of world.
What the book tells us about social media
