Welcome to My Echo Chamber

A while back, I felt tired of Twitter because it’s full of indie hacker influencers either bragging about their MRR or spewing advice on getting thousands of followers like they have (buy my course!).

Hoping to find a more meaningful way to keep myself up to date, I joined Substack and began subscribing to a bunch of newsletters that popped up and seemed interesting.

Last night, I found myself reading a newsletter about how You, too, can generate eight income streams when it clicked for me. Why am I spending time reading this? As I reflected on this last night, I realized I’d recreated the same environment that I had on Twitter.

Half of the newsletters are from people writing about how to succeed on Substack or how you, too, can have thousands of followers (grind!) and live life on your terms, et cetera ad infinitum. Am I just hooked on success porn? Please gloss over all complexities and failures along the way and seduce me with this easy six-step success blueprint.

Are we predisposed to seek out what we want to hear? Why did I do this to myself? More importantly, how can we break out of this cycle?