Is building in public on Twitter destroying your mental health?

Beeing active on Twitter totally changed my life: Since I rejoined the social network in April 2021, I started building in public by writing weekly blog posts, recording over 20 videos on YouTube, and launching several digital products.

Twitter has helped me a lot in my journey from a person who privately consumes digital content to a person who creates digital products in the public domain.

Compared to other social media apps like Instagram, Twitter seemed like a blessing:

Instead of shallow people showing their butts, abs, or expensive cars in front of the cameras, I finally found a corner of the internet where I could connect with like-minded people trying to create value in the world.

Now I had an army of entrepreneurs, that inspired me to work hard on beeing a creator instead of a consumer. As a consequence, Twitter definitely helped me to grow as a content creator.

Time off = Stealing from my future success

The only problem is that it hasn’t made me any happier.

Rather the opposite:

The longer I interacted with my Twitter bubble and the more I built in public, the more dissatisfied I became. I looked at all the successful…