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This morning, I got an email alert that my name had shown up in a Youtube video. The internet is slop-py these days, so I clicked the link expecting some spam or a scam – but instead I was met with something delightful.

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✨ Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners. Since leaving social media in April 2021, she’s also launched the popular podcast Off the Grid, where she interviews artists, writers, business leaders and former influencers. Amelia is a platform critic, an AI skeptic, and an advocate for a non-extractive internet. Her new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is out now.

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If there's one thing I am committed to next year, it's returning to my journalling practice.

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✨ Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners. Since leaving social media in April 2021, she’s also launched the popular podcast Off the Grid, where she interviews artists, writers, business leaders and former influencers. Amelia is a platform critic, an AI skeptic, and an advocate for a non-extractive internet. Her new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is out now.

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Today I'm doing a wild, wondrous, and terribly mundane thing that I've been working toward for years: buying a house!⠀⠀⠀

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✨ Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners. Since leaving social media in April 2021, she’s also launched the popular podcast Off the Grid, where she interviews artists, writers, business leaders and former influencers. Amelia is a platform critic, an AI skeptic, and an advocate for a non-extractive internet. Her new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is out now.

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The temptation to scroll the day away is strong! So I decided to arrive here and write to you instead.

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✨ Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners. Since leaving social media in April 2021, she’s also launched the popular podcast Off the Grid, where she interviews artists, writers, business leaders and former influencers. Amelia is a platform critic, an AI skeptic, and an advocate for a non-extractive internet. Her new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is out now.

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Many years ago, I went through a brief phase of being a runner. Lately, that reminds me of my book launch.

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✨ Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners. Since leaving social media in April 2021, she’s also launched the popular podcast Off the Grid, where she interviews artists, writers, business leaders and former influencers. Amelia is a platform critic, an AI skeptic, and an advocate for a non-extractive internet. Her new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is out now.

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This week, I started shipping my new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media, to readers around the world.

Even though I have lots of practice sharing my work in public, it felt really tender for this book to break free of its cocoon and fly to other homes.

I was both elated to share it and afraid of it being out there. Especially amidst the general stress, overwhelm, and literal government shutdown we're navigating right now.

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✨ Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners. Since leaving social media in April 2021, she’s also launched the popular podcast Off the Grid, where she interviews artists, writers, business leaders and former influencers. Amelia is a platform critic, an AI skeptic, and an advocate for a non-extractive internet. Her new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is out now.

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Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media will be here in 20 days! And one of the joys of getting closer to the publication date is that I'm starting to have conversations about the book with podcasters who are generous enough to have me on their shows to spread the word.

 
I love having these conversations, because they help me find new ideas, examples, and ways of thinking about the work that I would never arrive at without the magic of our minds coming together.

 
Today I want to tell you about a really good example that came up on two different calls this week. It's not in the book, but it's a great ‘aha’ moment for anyone rethinking attention and social media.  (I think I heard a version of it here first).

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✨ Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners. Since leaving social media in April 2021, she’s also launched the popular podcast Off the Grid, where she interviews artists, writers, business leaders and former influencers. Amelia is a platform critic, an AI skeptic, and an advocate for a non-extractive internet. Her new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is out now.

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When I left social media four years ago, I could literally feel my attention healing in real time. 

I went from scattered and drained to invigorated and focused. I had so much creative and embodied energy. I knew what I cared about for the first time in years. To be honest, it felt fully, fucking magical.

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✨ Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners. Since leaving social media in April 2021, she’s also launched the popular podcast Off the Grid, where she interviews artists, writers, business leaders and former influencers. Amelia is a platform critic, an AI skeptic, and an advocate for a non-extractive internet. Her new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is out now.

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A few months ago, I was feeling some kind of way about my book, and I found myself googling “ego death."

Wikipedia informed me that the term came from the realms of Buddhism, mysticism, Jungian psychology, New Age spirituality, and psychedelic drugs. It meant something like “complete loss of subjective self-identity" or "transcendence of the self."

And that felt… fine. But not quite right. 🫠

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✨ Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners. Since leaving social media in April 2021, she’s also launched the popular podcast Off the Grid, where she interviews artists, writers, business leaders and former influencers. Amelia is a platform critic, an AI skeptic, and an advocate for a non-extractive internet. Her new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is out now.

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Last week, I spent an afternoon on the phone with a dear friend I've known since high school.

She's been one of my biggest cheerleaders for a decade, and she always reads my newsletters and checks in on what I write.⠀

I started telling her about how busy my fall schedule was getting as I prepared for my book launch. And she interrupted me to ask… “Your book launch?? What book?!"⠀

And in that moment, I realized that maybe I haven't told everyone on this list about my book yet… and I should correct that! 😇

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✨ Amelia Hruby is a feminist writer, podcaster and producer with a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. Over the past decade, she’s been a university professor, a community organizer, and a radio DJ. Now, she is the founder and executive producer of Softer Sounds, a podcast studio that supports women and nonbinary small business owners. Since leaving social media in April 2021, she’s also launched the popular podcast Off the Grid, where she interviews artists, writers, business leaders and former influencers. Amelia is a platform critic, an AI skeptic, and an advocate for a non-extractive internet. Her new book, Your Attention is Sacred Except on Social Media is out now.