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Erin Mikail Staples

Erin Mikail Staples

Erin is a developer experience engineer, and stand-up comedian living in Brooklyn, NYC. She lives with her husband, living her dreams by helping folks find their "thing".

📍 brooklyn, nyc 🗽

Fans, at their core, are producers. What does this tells us about the ethics of fan labor? — Fandom Communities 002

However, with the rise and popularity of web 2.0 and 3.0, this fan labor is ripe for exploitation, with the original creators no longer receiving the credit, opportunities, or financial income generated from this fan labor.

Fans, they're really passionate people — Fandom Communities #001

When I was studying fandom in graduate school — it was often reiterated, fandom is a verb. In order to participate you must do something. This is not dissimilar from communities either — to truly belong to a community, you must participate in some sort of action. And action — is driven by passion.

Paid Attention 01: Finding your own harmony on the internet.

In these forums where connection with one another is commonly driven by the gamified dopamine triggers of likes, retweets, and shares — how do we push past this in defense of our own identity, authentic relationships, and our own sanity?

Creator Beer Club 002: Weddings, Shenanigans, and Celebrations — oh my!

See you at the next Creator Beer Club on August 24, 2021 — at Other Half Brewing Company. Erin + Luke here 👋 It's been a few months since we've started this journey — drinking beers on patios around Brooklyn, talking about the Creator Economy with those who work in

A month of creator beer hangs 🍻

Catch you tomorrow, July 27th at Bushwick Beer Garden for the next Creator Community Happy Hours. Thanks to everyone who's come out, spent some time with us and had some fun over the past month — we're excited to keep it going!

Creating your media product

Understanding what works as a news product, and at the end of the day, choosing what news product to build can be a make or break for your solopreneurship journey. For some in a newsroom, the product development process is something you may or may not have encountered but not

Getting started as a solopreneur

What is a media solopreneur? We've experienced an unreal amount of unrest within the last year. The crisis behind journalism — both in its sustainability, trust, viability and growth, has only continued to grow. With the COVID-19 pandemic and a hot button election year, we've needed access

How did we get here? The rise of solopreneurship in media.

People have been going it solo for sometime now, and it's been referenced as a sort of renaissance in thinking. But taking a look at the history of how the web was created, we shouldn't really be all that surprised by what we ended up creating.

How do I know if I'm ready for solopreneurship?

It seems easy enough, start up a Substack, kick off a podcast, or host a few events — you're well on your way to profitability. Wrong. While often touted as a way to democratize creation or put the tools into creators hands, there's a ton of time,

Welcome to Paid Attention

Another notification to my inbox? Yes, another notification, and hopefully a notification that brings you joy, reminds you to slow the fuck down, to log off every so often. 2021 thus far, has been a lot. I’m not going to expand on this at the current moment (scroll twitter