Today, Brussels happened. And I… observed. News, many people say, make you feel helpless. You see the bad stuff happening in the world, and you can’t do anything against it. Journalists don’t do anything against the bad stuff while just reporting what happened. But a lot of the helplessness can find another way to release - in the stress and pressure and then final button push of publishing an article about the event. Or of publishing a graphic.
I felt a little bit helpless till the end… At least, let’s say, I didn’t feel useful. I would have loved to work on this high pressure piece (because I like high pressure), but of course I’m too early in the job to know the style guides and workflows. I hope I’ll be able to help for this kind of work, though. At some point.
Input? 2 Output? 3
Learnings?
You can fill ice tea in a bottle so that there is no air in the bottle anymore, after you close it. Not one tiny bubble of air. Super impressive.
Chicago has areas with a higher criminality rate than in DC.
Brussels and Paris are as far away from each other as DC and New York. There’s a 1.5 hours train between Brussels and Paris. The fastest train between DC and New York takes almost double as long.
Terrorism gets defined very differently by different countries.
There were more fatalities due to terrorism thirty years ago then two years ago.
Questions?
What should I work on?
How can I keep being focused on what I actually want to do? How can I prevent myself from doing the stuff I like and instead do the stuff that I like AND that is important or useful?