Nature really doesn’t understand the rules of storytelling…
This week I have more good old-fashioned phone calls than Zoom or Teams meetings.
It’s such a relief.
I think I’ve found a way to articulate the discomfort I’m feeling in my work:
- I’m passionate about journalists, who are generally a good, passionate bunch
- I’m less passionate about the journalism industry, and the serious number of structural issues it’s unwilling to address.
For creativity to thrive, digital needs to learn its place…
“Normal people—with regular lives and real jobs—have soap operas and reality shows. People who are Extremely Online have Substack.”
Source: How Substack Soap Operas Change the Media Business by Helen Lewis
Millennials are hated for being defiantly uncool
“From the 1970s to the end of the 1990s young people were allowed just two modes of expression: irony and smoking.”
I’ve never smoked, so I’ve had bonus time to work on the irony.