Journalism

I was doing great until I blurted this in front of the journalist — I met him at a café, right across the street from where I live. He walked in, right on time. We greeted, grabbed ourselves some coffee, and started talking. He was covering a story on the current housing crisis in Ireland. He wanted me to share my experience as an…

Four events have potentially lowered the value of the dollar. — Back on March 2nd, 2021 I wrote about how my earnings are never their true worth thanks to GBP being too strong at that point in time. You can take a read below, but in summary, $1 was worth £0.73. When converting my earnings at the end of the month…

Ecstatic Realism — Joseph Mitchell and Werner Herzog — The truth of any documentary or journalistic work is always diluted. No film nor piece of writing can consider all perspectives and contain all details nor do so with perfectly objective language; There’s is always room for interpretation and the best one can hope for is fly-on-the-wall style objectivity and…

The difference between journalism and essays is that journalism is a sprint to the finish line, and essays can be a slow meandering stroll through time and space — I once heard Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author of non-fiction essays, talk about how he constructed his pieces. He had a few key points that maybe you wouldn’t expect from someone as analytical as he appears to be. The first was that imperfection was a positive attribute, and not something…

Why you should remember your dream in life — 1.Uncovers dream designs. Dream journaling throughout a drawn out timeframe can uncover designs, through repetitive dreams or the rehashed appearance of significant subtleties in your cognizant existence, and the more comfortable your psyche becomes with these examples, the more mindfulness it could start to have in employing them while sleeping. …