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The Slow Burn: Reviving the Lost Art of Building Meaningful Connections
We live in a world of instant gratification. One-click purchases, on-demand entertainment, and same-day deliveries have reshaped our expectations. But in the realm of professional networking, this fast-and-furious approach is not only ineffective but downright rude. Too often, people treat networking like a transactional game…
The Long & Lonely Road to Recovery
For the last thirteen months, I’ve been recovering from a pretty nasty back injury—an L4/L5 disc herniation pressing on my L5 nerve, causing relentless foot and leg pain on my left side. No back pain, just sciatica. At its worst, it gave me foot drop and numbness. I couldn’t even roll my left foot properly when walking.
Introducing The Films That Ruined Us, a New Podcast About Movie Obsession
What do you do if you’ve turned a beloved hobby into a business? The lines certainly get blurred between work and play. And so you start to crave a fresh focus. Something creative that doesn’t need to make money – maybe not initially. Something that is loads of fun and doesn’t feel like a chore. Enter podcast number two on a subject completely unrelated to Creative Boom but…
The Surprising Aftermath of Leaving Social Media
Earlier this month, I announced on LinkedIn that I’d terminated all my other personal accounts on X, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Reddit, and TikTok. Funny enough, I didn’t anticipate the flood of private messages that would follow—thank you notes for my honesty and even some praise for my “bravery”. It might seem odd that leaving a social network could spark such a response.