How to swap doom-scrolling for songwriting

On cultivating environments that make music-making more likely

Using social media rarely makes me feel good. I can’t think of a time—since I first started using Myspace—that social media hasn’t left me feeling both strung out and saturated after just a few minutes of use. It’s only gotten worse since then (like, oh, so much worse), and yet I still reach for it daily.

Recently, I was working with a client on the specific challenge of reducing doom-scrolling in favor of making more music. As we discussed some practical ways to approach this shift, I realized that I was eager to try much of what we came up with myself.

The thoughts below are quite specific and practical, but they’re all grounded in one main principle: keeping fun, easy-to-use music-making tools highly visible in the spaces where you play and relax.

Big love and keep going,
Lucy