HOLY MOLY!!!!! I am sending you all the sympathies for the tremendous loss but I also really enjoyed reading about the sense of freedom you’ve found in the wake of catastrophe...impressed by your capacity to turn this into a beautiful piece of writing too 👏
Terrific piece. I empathise. Microsoft locked me out of my account in February for reasons I've never understood and I have still not gained access. There were a scary few weeks when I thought I had lost everything that I had diligently been storing in OneDrive (i.e. most of my stuff) until I found it in some duplicate folder buried on my laptop. Still, without being able to access my work emails and having to change all of the logins that used my Microsoft email (most of them) it absolutely devastated my ability to run my business for those few weeks. I had to learn to do without and shrug off whatever information and communication with clients I had lost and set up another email account. I am still locked out.
My current big problem is social media which used to work well for me and now is not. The algorithms hate me now and I hate them. I used to love using social media to promote my work and build my brand and serendipitously discover potential clients, collaborators, content, events, information. Now it just feels hollow and empty. Those potential clients no longer hang out for chats like they used to, everyone just humble brags and curries favour with their little cliques and it's like some school playground, just nasty and superficial and dull. So now I have to re-jig my marketing strategy so that it no longer relies of social media, and that's OK, I can do that, but I feel a real sense of grief at the loss of the social in social media. But, as you described so beautifully in your article, there's a sense of freedom there too.
HOLY MOLY!!!!! I am sending you all the sympathies for the tremendous loss but I also really enjoyed reading about the sense of freedom you’ve found in the wake of catastrophe...impressed by your capacity to turn this into a beautiful piece of writing too 👏
Terrific piece. I empathise. Microsoft locked me out of my account in February for reasons I've never understood and I have still not gained access. There were a scary few weeks when I thought I had lost everything that I had diligently been storing in OneDrive (i.e. most of my stuff) until I found it in some duplicate folder buried on my laptop. Still, without being able to access my work emails and having to change all of the logins that used my Microsoft email (most of them) it absolutely devastated my ability to run my business for those few weeks. I had to learn to do without and shrug off whatever information and communication with clients I had lost and set up another email account. I am still locked out.
My current big problem is social media which used to work well for me and now is not. The algorithms hate me now and I hate them. I used to love using social media to promote my work and build my brand and serendipitously discover potential clients, collaborators, content, events, information. Now it just feels hollow and empty. Those potential clients no longer hang out for chats like they used to, everyone just humble brags and curries favour with their little cliques and it's like some school playground, just nasty and superficial and dull. So now I have to re-jig my marketing strategy so that it no longer relies of social media, and that's OK, I can do that, but I feel a real sense of grief at the loss of the social in social media. But, as you described so beautifully in your article, there's a sense of freedom there too.