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Rosie Whinray's avatar

It's a sideways leap but I think you might enjoy this, Dougald- I was reminded of Richard Thompson on the Folk on Foot podcast I listened to yesterday- when asked whether he had found the lockdowns creatively fruitful, he said something like "It takes a virus to inspire us!" https://www.folkonfoot.com/episodes/richard-thompson-in-muswell-hill-(and-other-parts-of-london)

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Randall Jason Green's avatar

“I’d been on Twitter almost from the start – so early that when the journalists started showing up, an old BBC colleague got me to write him a “beginner’s guide” – but none of my tweets ever went viral. We all have our gifts, and I had friends who knew how to tickle the internet where it likes to be tickled, but that wasn’t one of mine.”

…some days I try to imagine various Saints and holy people desperate and dopamine addicted sweating at the keyboard trying to go viral and in doing so skipping over everything that needs to be said.

Bless you and your non-virality!

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