Why did I build a feed if I hate social media?
As you may have heard, I’ve tried to get rid of all of my social media accounts. As I’ve said before, this is equal parts “be more present and put your phone down”, “my data should be my own”, and “I can’t support people who support racist, homophobic, transphobic, and anti-feminist people and policies”.
As I went through the last 18 months, though, I realized that people want to know what’s going on with my life. Not every second of every day. Not shoved in their face. But on occasion (and, frankly, more frequently than I remember to call or text them). That was my thought behind this blog, but monthly updates were both too much (my job is email marketing, I don’t want to write more campaigns) and not enough (I’m constantly forgetting what I did when it comes time to write up those campaigns).
So, I did what you do in 2026 - asked Claude how to make a better website. I’ll be honest: while all of the ideas and concepts were mine, the coding was FULLY done by AI - I’m not a web developer and I’m not trying to be.
After a few rounds of back and forths, a few hundred deployments, and losing all of my data, I finished alex-cutrone.com.
The main bit of content is the feed that lives on the main page, allowing me to (with some creative apple Shortcuts) quickly and easily post what’s going on in my life (and then get back to my life).
There are other pages, most of which feel obligatory, but the feed is the big thing. It allows me to keep y’all up to date on the more mundane/everyday stuff without rolling it into a blog post.
It looks like proto-facebook, I know. But I never wanted to get off of socials because I hated sharing my life with you. I just hated being so dependent on notification-dopamine. Which, you’ll notice, is aggressively absent from my feed. No comments or likes, no interaction at all, actually. The feed is one-way: my life to your screen. That’s it. I don’t “check it” because there’s nothing to check. It’s basically a journal that y’all can see.
I’m still iterating on this idea. I just rolled out an email subscription option today, which will let you sign up for weekly or monthly summaries of what’s going on in my life. I’ve synced up live music from Apple Music and Spotify, linked my Strava activities, and got a few other ideas on the table. But this is where it’s at.
As always, this is maybe fine, but I’d ALWAYS rather stay in touch. Call me, text me, email me! You’re important people in my life and I want to keep it that way.
<3
Alex