Draft Four: Did I fail my (immediate) future self?
New season of tackling old patterns.
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Draft Four: Online, angry, and craving virality
Our group chat for the Prea Sărac podcast lit up Friday night. My colleagues were discussing reactions to our first posts – yes, the Instagram is up – and were upset by the tone of some of them. People haven’t heard the show (it’ll launch in October), many might never,
Draft Four: Can Quitting Be Winning?
The power of letting go – why it’s hard, and when it’s necessary.
Draft Four: Stories of reconciliation
Memory needs listeners.
Draft Four: Stop gifting your attention
The hard work of focus. The focus on the hard work.
Draft Four: Austerity Blues
Happy 100 letters to us!
Draft Four: Hypernormalization is ruining us
On breaking free from our feeds.
Draft Four: Summer recommendations
20 side dishes for lazy days.
Draft Four: The Romanian story wars continue
A new chapter begins.
Draft Four: All that you touch, you Change
Do not quit in advance.
Draft Four: Fire in the City of Steel
Is there a future for Reșița’s furnace?
Draft Four: Existential (journalistic) questions
The Perugia #ijf25 edition.
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Draft Four: Hope is a choice
11 lessons from The Power of Storytelling.
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Draft Four: The context diet
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Draft Four: When can we do life again?
Keep shoveling snow.
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Draft Four reader survey: Why are you here?
And what need am I solving?
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Draft Four: When the money is gone, then what?
The world is both a graveyard and a construction site.
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Draft Four: Finish things
On building through the chaos.
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Draft Four: My word of intention for 2025
Entering year 3, plus promises and recs.
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Draft Four: Endings, the 2024 edition
Plus a best of the year list.
journalism
Draft Four: Don’t be a cult, be of service
And other year-end thoughts about journalism.
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Draft Four: Closing some loops
And hoping things work out.
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Draft Four: Why Romania fell for an outsider
And why even dangerous and false stories stick.
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Draft Four: Romania’s age of anxiety
And eight books to better understand where we are.