Analog creativity with Jess Davis
I’ve only met Jess Davis in person once, but she is, without a doubt, one of my people. Engaged, excitable, deeply human, curious and, as I once told her, she has a gold-plated bullshit detector.
It was a real joy to sit down and chat with her recently, and we start out by catching up on life in her corner of the world: NYC. Jess shares the slow evolution of New York over the past 18 months of Covid, how the mass exodus of corporate America has changed the fabric of the city and why it’s now the city that sleeps (at least for a while).
We also talk about her rediscovery of old school film photography as an analog stand-in for social media, why she broke up with her iPhone (again) and what finally led her to rekindle an acquaintance with it. We dig in to one of my favourite juicy topics: the commercialisation of ‘slow’ and Jess shares why she spent the past two years feeling responsible for it.
Jess also talks about her decision to make a video diary of the first 100 days of lockdown in New York, and why we need to remember - even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts.
I couldn’t love this woman or this conversation more, and I hope you enjoy the deep dive.
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Things to check out after today’s episode:
Watch Jess' film "What day is it?"
Take Jonathan Fields’ Sparketype quiz (I’m a Maker Maven like Jess)
Read about Cal Newport’s analog social media experiment
Order Brooke's new book 'Care'
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