Can A Recovering News-junky Make Something Useful?

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After years of obsessing over the news and feeling powerless about all of it, I'm finally trying something I've never actually done.For years I was a news junky. Subscriptions to the New York Times and the Washington Post, hours of cable news, BBC on the radio in the car. I told myself it was civic duty. Eventually I realized it was just making me miserable – and I'd done basically nothing about any of the things I was obsessing over.So I cut most of it out and turned my attention to creativity instead. But a panel discussion I caught at JazzAhead in Bremen last month put a question in my head that hasn't left: what does it actually look like to use creativity for a cause you care about? In the next few weeks I'm going to try it. If you want to try it too, post what you make in the comments and I'll post mine.🎧Check out my music: https://scottmclemore.bandcamp.com/🤟Join the Patreon community: https://patreon.com/scottmclemore📭 The free newsletter goes deeper into ideas like these: https://ktfpod.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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