50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (December 12, 2022)
Progress is overrated, is it not? The older I get, the simpler I wish things were. Better, faster, stronger, as KanYe said (and Daft Punk before him). Smarter, bigger, richer, modern industry replies. If you grow at 7% each year, within 10 years you will double what you started with. The crazy thing: that’s not seen as exceptional. Many businesses, startups especially, aim for double, triple that. Our timeframes are all warped, and progress is the misshapen lens turning sunshine into a flesh-singeing beam of hyper-heated energy.
Then I think…
Progress is awesome, is it not? The older I get, the longer I want to live, to see what crazy kind of world we’ll be living in later on. Less than 40 years ago I lived in Africa, and corresponded with my grandparents in the UK through airmail and voice-recorded cassettes sent in the post. They would take three weeks to arrive. Today, I live in Hong Kong and correspond with my parents in the UK through real-time video chats on any number of different software applications. Email means I’ve been able to buy a cottage in my parents’ village without entering the same hemisphere. The world is shrinking, and progress is the warm cycle bringing us all closer together.
This week’s calls for pitches below.
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