{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65bcfa430fb47b0017b47689/6a21a81e1ddbe06b3aedcdde?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Can A Recovering News-junky Make Something Useful?","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65bcfa430fb47b0017b47689/1780590605803-70d63d22-2c78-46e6-a868-b6925a0ecde9.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>After years of obsessing over the news and feeling powerless about all of it, I'm finally trying something I've never actually done.</p><p><br></p><p>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. </p><p><br></p><p>Eventually I realized it was just making me miserable – and I'd done basically nothing about any of the things I was obsessing over.</p><p><br></p><p>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. </p><p><br></p><p>If you want to try it too, post what you make in the comments and I'll post mine.</p><p><br></p><p>🎧Check out my music: https://scottmclemore.bandcamp.com/</p><p>🤟Join the Patreon community: https://patreon.com/scottmclemore</p><p>📭 The free newsletter goes deeper into ideas like these: https://ktfpod.com</p>","author_name":"Scott McLemore"}