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It’s officially Aries season, and I’m here to ask a quick birthday-flavored favor…

It’ll only take a minute, and here are easy-to-follow instructions:

✎ Find Hoopla at this link and use your library card to log in.

✎ Then click this link to find my audiobook and borrow it.

✎ If you're up for it, please also click this link to borrow my ebook.

⚯ If you have the Hoopla app, you can also just search my name!

✨ 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. Since leaving social media in 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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Tune in for spring news from my world...

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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. Since leaving social media in 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 month, I'm trying a book-sharing experiment...

And popping up in San Francisco next week!

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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. Since leaving social media in 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 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. Since leaving social media in 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. Since leaving social media in 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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Listen to my episode of Feed the Art on Apple and Spotify
 

✨ 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. Since leaving social media in 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. Since leaving social media in 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. Since leaving social media in 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. Since leaving social media in 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. Since leaving social media in 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.